"Medieval England's most notorious and deadly era... this is historical drama at its thrilling bloodiest best!"
If you’ve ever wanted a fast-paced book about the Wars of the Roses that makes sense of all the infamous events involving 'King Richard III' and 'the Princes in the Tower' then this exciting single volume trilogy has all the gory details!
King Richard III: The Death of a Dynasty is a stirring account of the 15th century people who made history just before England’s Tudor Age. It’s a modern re-telling of medieval England’s final years, showcasing the dominant characters of that dying chivalric age, and offering a superb fresh insight into how those last vicious protagonists eventually yielded to the new House of Tudor.
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THIS IS HISTORY AS YOU’VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE
It’s only when you see things through the eyes of the people that lived through the Late Middle Ages that you really appreciate that these times created people who were truly dangerous, heroic, frightening, and occasionally downright hilarious.
Written with an accessible mix of modern narrative, first-person commentary and scripted dialogue, these fascinating characters – and more – come to life in “King Richard III: The Death of a Dynasty”...
FEATURING: MEDIEVAL KINGS WHO OFTEN DEFIED BELIEF!
* The King of England who executed his own brother!
* An English king who forced a whole city of 12,000 innocent people to starve to death
* Why English kings after the 1330s also called themselves King of France
* A French king who thought he was made of glass!
* The English king who suffered such a shock that he couldn’t speak for almost 18 months?
* An English king who was locked in a dungeon and left to die of starvation
* The woman King Henry VI gave away half his foreign land in order to have
* A king who died slowly in agony by choking to death after a mouth abscess grew so large it blocked up his throat
PLUS: INCREDIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD!
* What scandalous act in 1399 forced England into three decades of civil war over fifty years later?
* What were the ‘dancing angels’ seen when Joan of Arc was burned alive?
* Which poet died only after he saw his intestines being pulled out and slopped onto a fire?
* Which terrifying English nobleman would march his troops into a village, publicly execute one personally-chosen prisoner-of-war, and then move on to do the same thing at the next village?
* Which earl refused to wear battle armour and then had his face literally ripped off by cannon fire?
PLUS: KING RICHARD III – HISTORY’S GREATEST ENIGMA!
* Was Richard III a good or an evil king?
* Who killed the Princes in the Tower, and why did they have to die?
* What’s the shocking secret behind the kind obedient Richard, Duke of Gloucester's apparent murderous transformation into King Richard III?
* What was the impossible situation Richard’s own mother placed him in?
* Whose chance arrest revealed the 1483 rebellion that would have unseated King Richard and changed history forever?
This isn’t a book for historians (there aren’t enough dreary facts and figures, for a start), but it is a book for anyone who loves thrilling true stories about real people, making King Richard III: The Death of a Dynasty a perfect beginner-friendly chronicle of the bloody and gruesome demise of England’s greatest medieval family.
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