Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick – called the Kingmaker – has been relegated to a famous oblivion. Is there any other man in English history so well known and so little known about? The role that Warwick plays in history is so important because his life coincides with the civil strife of the Wars of the Roses from 1455, when the Red Rose first clashed with the White at the Battle of St Albans, to the Earl’s defeat and death at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
Paul Kendall, whose biography of Richard III received such high praise, has attempted to make good this deficiency. The result is a work of historical biography every bit as colourful and dynamic as its predecessor. This picture of a turbulent age and of the warrior who bestrode it has a grip on the reader that never relaxes from the first to last. For the first time in literature Warwick, the last of the overpowerful barons, becomes a figure of flesh and blood, and a memorable human being.
‘The story of the Wars of the Roses is, after all, an exciting story, full of the most dramatic vicissitudes of fortune, and it loses nothing by being retold with this splendidly emblazoned lay figure at the centre of it’
The Times
ISBN 0351170960 Uit: 1973
365 pagina’s
Afmetingen boek: 15 x 21.5 x 1.6 cm
Uitgever: Pinguin Books Ltd
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