Battle royal : the Wars of the Roses, 1440-1462 / Hugh Bicheno.
"The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses. England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos. The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent feuding...
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| Other title: | Wars of the Roses, 1440-1462. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Passionate princesses
- House of Lancaster
- House of Beaufort
- House of Valois-Anjou
- House of York
- Faction and feud
- Defeat and humiliation
- Henry and Richard
- House of Neville
- Marguerite
- Mitre and crown
- Richard
- Henry
- Coup d'état
- Marguerite's counter-coup
- Lord of Calais
- Here be dragons
- Marguerite and Henry
- Entr'acte : the English way of war
- Marguerite's army
- Lancaster resurgent
- Warwick's apotheosis
- Betrayal
- Marguerite and son
- Richard's humiliation
- Edward of March
- The bubble reputation
- Two kings
- Knight's gambit
- Endgame
- Coda : checkmate
- Appendix A. English peerage, 1440-62, by date of creation
- Appendix B. English peerage, 1440-62, alphabetical
- Appendix C. Archbishops and bishops, 1440-62
- Appendix D. Beauchamp inheritance.