Bosworth
Subtitle: the birth of the Tudors
By: by Chris Skidmore
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780297863762; 9780297863779
Subjects: Historia; Bosworth Field; Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485; Schlacht; History
Other titles: Birth of the Tudors
Description: "On the morning of 22 August 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a 28-year-old Welshman who had just arrived back on British soil after fourteen years in exile. Yet this was to be a fight to the death - only one man could survive; only one could claim the throne. It would become one of the most legendary battles in English history: the only successful invasion since Hastings, it was the last time a king died on the battlefield. But [this book] is much more than the account of the dramatic events of that fateful day in August. It is a tale of brutal feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the Tudor family from obscure Welsh gentry to the throne of England - a story that began sixty years earlier with Owen Tudor's affair with Henry V's widow, Katherine of Valois. Drawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world in an epic saga of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception and the birth of the Tudor dynasty." --Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fortune's wheel; title: To conquer or die; title: Exile; title: Usurpation; title: Rebellion; title: The rat, the cat and the dog; title: A confederacy of rebels; title: The spiral of decline; title: March to war; title: Secret friends; title: The Battle of Bosworth; title: Our victorious field; title: Reward, retribution and reconciliation; title: Bosworth rediscovered.