Battle Royal : The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1462

Zusatztext Fact-packed ... with the help of maps, family trees, a "who's who" and various appendices the excitement of the story wins through. I'm looking forward to volume two' The Battlefields Trust . Informationen zum Autor Hugh Bicheno is a writer and historian with a specialist interest in the politics and cutting edge of conflict. His books include Gettysburg (2002), Midway (2002), Crescent and Cross: the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (2003), Rebels & Redcoats: the American Revolutionary War (2003), Razor’s Edge: the Unofficial History of the Falklands War (2006) and Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance (2008). Hugh Bicheno read history at Cambridge, and later joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He is the author of Crescent and Cross: the Battle of Lepanto , Razor's Edge: the Unofficial History of the Falklands War and Elizabeth's Sea Dogs . Klappentext First volume of a two-part history of England's longest and bloodiest civil war. Volume 1 traces the story from 1450 to 1462, a period punctuated by the battles of St Albans, Towton and Hexham. Zusammenfassung The first volume of a rip-roaring, two-part history of England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated as a medieval 'game of thrones' by a master military historian.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Bicheno, Bicheno Hugh
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.09.2016
• EAN: 9781781859667
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-966-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; England, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), HISTORY / Military / Medieval, Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Non Fiction, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval warfare (predating gunpowder warfare)