MEMOIRS OF A TRAITOR

'Tomorrow they are going to chop off my head.'  Thus begins one of the most remarkable stories in the history of England.  Meet Sir William Stanley, a mere knight, caught up against his will in the Wars of the Roses, that peculiar time when the House of Lancaster and the House of York battled for decadea with the sole issue being which of them would produce the king.  The nobles, bound as they were by oaths of allegiance, had no choice but to select a side.  If they guessed r