The Wars of the Roses: The Bloody Struggle for England's Throne

by Hugh Bicheno

The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne of England; the story is one of unbridled ambition and murderous treachery. From the 1450s, when the mentally unstable Henry VI struggled to control the violent feuding of his magnates, through the rise and fall of Richard of York, to the chaos and bloodshed of the 1470s which followed Edward IV's accession...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789544726
• ISBN13: 9781789544725
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
• Length: 768 Pages