A Guide to the Wars of the Roses

Provides a clear, accessible explanation of the conflict’s origins, key events, and aftermath, stripping away centuries of distortion. So much has been written, and is still being written, about the Wars of the Roses – both in print and on the internet - that the interested student of history is in grave danger of being utterly overwhelmed. The key players in the conflict are very interesting personalities but they have become so distorted by caricature that they now appear as a procession of he