Book Review: Blood Royal
/A sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreA sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreA lively new account of the bloodbath of Towton, one of the key battles of the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreHe fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
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