The Wars of the Roses featured sixteen invasions - four succeeded, and six times kings lost their thrones. This book by Michael Hicks explores why those invasions occurred and kept occurring. Destruction and devastation were minimal, barely affecting the day-to-day routine of the civilian population, yet the Wars were lethal for their noble leaders and, as firsthand accounts reveal, blighted the lives of their women and children. That the Wars ended so abruptly, Hicks concludes, was not so much because Henry VII won at Bosworth and went on to rule effectively, but rather because a feel-good factor removed popular discontent as continental rivals turned elsewhere at the same time.
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Wars of the Roses, Queen Margaret, King Edward, Henry Tudor, Richard Duke of York, West Country, Richard Ill, Archbishop Neville, Blore Heath, George Duke of Clarence, Bastard of Fauconberg, Earl of Oxford, Richard Duke of Gloucester, Robin of Redesdale, Bisham Priory, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Rivers, Tewkesbury Abbey, The British Library New!
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- Margaret of Anjou by Betty King in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 21
- English Channel: Student's Book Level 3 by Peter Viney on page 32, and page 40
- The Making of the King 1066 by Alan Lloyd in Back Matter
- Chronicles of London by Charles L. Kingsford in Back Matter
- The Battle of Wakefield in Back Matter
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