The Wars of the Roses: The Conflict That Inspired Game of Thrones
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The Wars of the Roses: The Conflict That Inspired Game of Thrones
39.99 €
Monarchs mad, juvenile and imprisoned; noble families feuding with each other; disputes over the order of succession to the throne and kings who executed their own brothers; nobles in exile, wars with France and the unification of bitter enemies in the fight against a common enemy - the history of the War of the Scarlet and White Rose (1455-1485) is so dramatic that it sometimes resembles a thrilling novel. It's no wonder that this period inspired the creators of the internationally popular TV series Game of Thrones. In telling the story of the fifteenth-century wars between the two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty, the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, Martin J. Doherty, author of acclaimed books on the Vikings, the Celts, and the art of warfare, follows the course of the confrontation from Henry VI's inheritance of the crown as an infant to the defeat of the rebellions under Henry VII, and shows that the protagonists of the conflict were driven by their conflicting commitments to blood and marriage and, most of all, to their own aspirations. From the madness of Henry VI, captured during battle, to the mystery of the "prisoner princes of the Tower" and the truth about Richard III's ugliness, The War of the Scarlet and White Rose is a lively narrative of more than thirty twilight years when intrigue, treachery, murder, and deceit served medieval England's politicians as the primary means to seize and hold power.
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