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St. Martin's Griffin
January 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
ISBN: 125006144X
EAN: 9781250061447
Kindle: B00F1RE1BQ
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Non-Fiction History
On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles
from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for
battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against
the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown,
Henry Tudor, a twenty–eight year old Welshman who had just
arrived back on British soil after fourteen years in exile.
Yet this was to be a fight to the death—only one man could
survive; only one could claim the throne. It would be the
end of the War of the Roses. It would become one of the most legendary battles in English
history: the only successful invasion since Hastings, it was
the last time a king died on the battlefield. But The Rise
Of The Tudors is much more than the account of the dramatic
events of that fateful day in August. It is a tale of brutal
feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the
Tudor family from obscure Welsh gentry to the throne of
England—a story that began sixty years earlier with Owen
Tudor's affair with Henry V's widow, Katherine of Valois. Drawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts
and the latest archaeological evidence, including the recent
discovery of Richard III's remains, Chris Skidmore vividly
recreates this battle-scarred world and the reshaping of
British history and the monarchy.
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