download free the wars of the roses alison weir

Only nine months old when his father's sudden death made him king, Henry VI became a tormented and pathetic figure, weak, sexually inept, and prey to fits of insanity. Both Henry IV and his son, the cold warrior Henry V, ruled England ably, if not always wisely-but Henry VI proved a disaster, both for his dynasty and his kingdom. The first battle erupted in 1455, but the roots of the conflict reached back to the dawn of the fifteenth century, when the corrupt, hedonistic Richard II was sadistically murdered, and Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, seized England's throne. In The Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir reconstructs this conflict with the same dramatic flair and impeccable research that she brought to her highly praised The Princes in the Tower.

The war between the royal House of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. OL15840877W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.00 Pages 502 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299207138 Urn:lcp:warsofroses00weir:epub:5d197e9e-8fa9-4e85-91fa-91ea7290106c Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier warsofroses00weir Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8jd5qq8z Isbn 0345391179ĩ780345391179 Lccn 95094503 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Marincountyfreelibrary Edition 1st American ed. BoxID IA1557415 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:24:24 Boxid IA119615 Boxid_2 CH115201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donor

Download free the wars of the roses alison weir