The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487

ISBN-13: 9781405823609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 344 str.

John Sadler

Opis

The first comprehensive single volume history of the Wars of the Roses since 1981.

• One of the most famous conflicts in British history
• Massive popular general readership interest in this area
• Virtually all other books in print focus on specific aspects, individuals or single battles and campaigns

Spis treści

Being Introductory 1. The Art of War in the Fifteenth Century 2. The Nature of Kingship and the House of Lancaster 3. The Path to Conflict 1453 – 1455 4. First Blood – 1st St. Albans 22nd May 1455 5. Blore Heath 23rd September1459 and the Rout of Ludford Bridge 12/13th October, 1459. 6. Northampton10th July 1460 and Wakefield 30th December 1460 7. Mortimer’s Cross 2nd February 1461; 2nd St. Albans 17th February 1461 8. ‘Palmsunday Field’ – Towton  29th March 1461 9. War in the North 1461 – 1463 10. Hedgeley Moor 25th April 1464 and Hexham 14th May 1464 11. The Overmighty Subject – Warwick the Kingmaker 1464 – 1469; the Battles of Edgcote (26th July 1469) and Empingham (12th March 1470) 12. The Road to Barnet 14th April 1471 13. Tewkesbury4th May 1471 14. ‘This Sunne of York’ – the Yorkist Age 1471 – 1483 15. ‘Under the Hog’ Richard III and Bosworth 22nd August 1485 16. Stoke Field 16th June 1487. 17. The Military Legacy

O autorze

John Sadler is the author of Border Fury: England and Scotland at War, 1296-1603 (Longman, 2006) and Scottish Battles (2003). He has for some several years been employed as a lecturer on medieval and military history at the Continuing Education Centre of Newcastle and Sunderland Universities.