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The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir; 3M Company is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Wars of the Roses about?
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal House of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. In The Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir reconstructs this conflict with the same dramatic flair and impeccable research that she brought to her highly praised The Princes in the Tower. The first battle erupted in 1455, but the roots of the conflict reached back to the dawn of the fifteenth century, when the corrupt, hedonistic Richard II was sadistically murdered, and Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, seized England's throne. Both Henry IV and his son, the cold warrior Henry V, ruled England ably, if not always wisely--but Henry VI proved a disaster, both for his dynasty and his kingdom. Only nine months old when his father's sudden death made him king, Henry VI became a tormented and pathetic figure, weak, sexually inept, and prey to fits of insanity. The factional fig
Who reads The Wars of the Roses?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alison Weir; 3M Company
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307806857
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (63 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14