Desmond Seward: The War of the Roses

By MARGIE THOMSON

If you've an interest in this especially bloody period of English history, Seward brings it to life with a roar, telling the gruesome story through the lives of five different historical figures.

The appalling slaughter of this period left the ruling class decimated, and the rest of Europe looked on in amazement, "even if the English were then regarded as the most violent and ferocious race in Christendom. Men of a haughty disposition, hot tempered and quickly moved to anger, difficult to pacify and bring to reason" was how one chronicler put it. This blood-soaked account charts in extraordinary detail the plots, battles, marriages and murders.

Robinson

$48.95