Battle Royal
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Battle Royal

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Battle Royal

About this book

England, 1454: King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent feuding of his dukes, is losing his mind. Disgruntled nobles support the regal claims of Richard, Duke of York, great-grandson of Edward III. The stage is set for civil war.The first volume of an enthralling two-part history of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, Battle Royal traces the conflict from its roots in the 1440s to the early 1460s—a period marked by the rise and fall of Richard of York, the deposition of Henry VI following the Lancastrian defeat at Towton, and the subsequent seizure of his throne by Richard's son Edward.Charting a clear course through the dynastic complexities of fifteenth-century power politics, and offering crisply authoritative analysis of the key battles of the Wars of the Roses, Battle Royal is a dynamic and rigorously researched account of England's longest and bloodiest civil war.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781681776446
eBook ISBN
9781681773711

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Maps 1–27
  5. List of Tables and Family Trees
  6. Protagonists and Marriages
  7. Maps 1–5
  8. Princes of the Blood Family Tree
  9. Preface
  10. Prologue · Passionate Princesses
  11. I · House of Lancaster
  12. II · House of Beaufort
  13. III · House of Valois-Anjou
  14. IV · House of York
  15. V · Faction and Feud
  16. VI · Defeat and Humiliation
  17. VII · Henry and Richard
  18. VIII · House of Neville
  19. IX · Marguerite
  20. X · Mitre and Crown
  21. XI · Richard
  22. XII · Henry
  23. XIII · Coup d’etat
  24. XIV · Marguerite’s Counter-coup
  25. XV · Lord of Calais
  26. XVI · Here be Dragons
  27. XVII · Marguerite and Henry
  28. Entr’acte · The English Way of War
  29. XVIII · Marguerite’s Army
  30. XIX · Lancaster Resurgent
  31. XX · Warwick’s Apotheosis
  32. XXI · Betrayal
  33. XXII · Marguerite and Son
  34. XXIII · Richard’s Humiliation
  35. XXIV · Edward of March
  36. XXV · The Bubble Reputation
  37. XXVI · Two Kings
  38. XXVII · Knight’s Gambit
  39. XXVIII · Endgame
  40. Coda · Checkmate
  41. Appendix A English Peerage 1440–62, by date of creation
  42. Appendix B English Peerage 1440–62, alphabetical
  43. Appendix C Archbishops and Bishops 1440–62
  44. Appendix D Beauchamp Inheritance
  45. Works Consulted
  46. Acknowledgements
  47. Image Credits
  48. Illustrations
  49. Index
  50. Copyright