num_pages: 432
description: Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown From the time he sees his parents brutally slain and his home destroyed in a bloody Lancastrian power struggle for the crown, young Martin Robsart's life becomes entwined with that of England's royal Plantagenet family. Through the turbulence of civil war, Martin serves his cousins -- Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III -- and learns the cost of loyalty and love in battlefields and bedchambers in a time when life is cheap and treachery hides behind a smile. Through Martin's eyes, Meredith Whitford's superbly researched and richly woven novel shows Shakespeare's conniving and perverse Richard III in a realistic new light - as a patriot and a lover. Never before has perceived history taken such a surprising turn as Whitford corrects the Shakespearean myth and crowns a new hero, bringing back to life the passion and heat of a breathless historical moment that shaped the world - a moment we know as the War of the Roses .a time of thorns and treason.
language: English
title: Treason
titlecomplete: Treason
characters: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard III of England, Edward IV of England
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Medieval, British Literature, Fiction, 15th Century, Plantagenet
ratings_count: 505
places: England
publisher: Bewrite Books