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The Reign
Rose Of York #3
May 2007
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Featuring: Lady Anne Neville; Richard III
272 pages
ISBN: 0975126490
EAN: 9780975126493
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In a tumultuous era marked by peril and intrigue,
reversals of fortune and violent death, the passions of a
few rule the destiny of England and change the course of
history . . . Did Richard III really murder the princes in the
Tower and poison his wife to marry his niece? Richard III's reign is buried in mystery and controversy.
For many, he is a monster of biblical proportions. Most
historian agree that the usurping Tudors rewrote history to
prove him a villain, much as Hitler would have villified
Churchill, had he won World War II. The problem is that by
the end of the sixteenth century Tudor propaganda had become
historical fact. In the familiar Tudor mantra, Richard III
plays Cain in “Cain and Abel” and is the wicked uncle who
murders his two little nephews in the Tower and poisons his
wife to marry his niece. To embellish the fascinating tale
of the devil reborn in the guise of Richard III, he is made
to be diabolically ugly, a hunchback, born with a tail, who
died a coward on the battlefield. The truth is very different and even more fascinating, and
Fall from Grace gives an account of the reign of
Richard III based on the actions of Richard's life, not on
the Tudor myth. Here, the last of the long line of
Plantagenet kings of Englands stands tall once again to
claim his place beside his valiant forebears and change the
world with his passion for justice. Here is an Arthurian
tale of a reluctant king who fought for justice in a land
torn by civil war and was undone by treason. With his death
at Bosworth Field died the Age of Chivalry, plunging England
into the terror of the bloody reign of the Tudors.
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