The brothers York : an English tragedy / Thomas Penn.
By: Penn, Thomas [author.]
.Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2019Description: xxvii, 655, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical table (colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846146909.Subject(s): Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483 | Clarence, George, Duke of, 1449-1478 | Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 | Great Britain -- History -- House of York, 1461-1485 | Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485DDC classification: 942.04 Summary: "It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York...Thomas Penn's brilliant new telling of the wars of the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers - Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible. But with Edward's ascendancy the brothers began to turn on one another, unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide, usurpation and regicide. The brutal end came at Bosworth Field in 1485, with the death of the youngest, then Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor. The story of a warring family unable to sustain its influence and power, The Brothers York brings to life a dynasty that could have been as magnificent as the Tudors. Its tragedy was that, in the space of one generation, it destroyed itself." -- Taken from dust jacket.
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| 942.04 PAS Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century. | 942.04 PAS Paston letters / | 942.04 PAT Patronage, the Crown and the provinces : | 942.04 PEN The brothers York : | 942.04 RUL Rulers and ruled in late medieval England : | 942.04 SEW The wars of the Roses : | 942.04 SIM The reign of Edward IV. |
"It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York...Thomas Penn's brilliant new telling of the wars of the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers - Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible. But with Edward's ascendancy the brothers began to turn on one another, unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide, usurpation and regicide. The brutal end came at Bosworth Field in 1485, with the death of the youngest, then Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor. The story of a warring family unable to sustain its influence and power, The Brothers York brings to life a dynasty that could have been as magnificent as the Tudors. Its tragedy was that, in the space of one generation, it destroyed itself." -- Taken from dust jacket.