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The Wars of the Roses by John Ashdown-Hill (view source)
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This history is very readable, its three hundred or so pages providing an enjoyable and painless retelling. It may not dig deeply into detail, but there is no shortage of other works to cater for those who wish to know more. While it may be a little too indulgent towards Richard III, who is obviously one of the author's heroes, many books of this nature tend to lean one way or the other. Those which lean towards a completely neutral point of view are seemingly few and far between. For a moderately light account of the period, this will serve as well as any.
There is no shortage of associated titles for further reading. We can recommend the same author's [[The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill|The Last Days of Richard III]], or for a life of his elder brother, [[Edward IV: Glorious Son of York by Jeffrey James]] covers not just the man but the age as well. [[Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence]] looks at the marriage which caused the Yorkist success story to unravel, while [[The Princes In The Tower by Alison Weir]] deals with British history's most famous mystery of 'the children who disappeared'. [[Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham]] is a life of the often-overlooked Yorkist princess whose misfortune it was to survive too long into the Tudor age. We also have a review of Ashdown-Hill's [[The Private Life of Edward IV by John Ashdown-Hill|The Private Life of Edward IV]].
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