The rise of the Tudors, the family that changed English history, Chris Skidmore
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The rise of the Tudors, the family that changed English history, Chris Skidmore
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-415) and index
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illustrationsplates
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The rise of the Tudors
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bibliography
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827256848
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Chris Skidmore
Sub title
the family that changed English history
Summary
A British historian describes the soap opera-worthy story of the ruling family of England's double-crossing, treachery, ruthlessness, feuding and warring in the late 15th to early 17th century and the legacies left by Henry VIII and Elizabeth IOn the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields near Bosworth, two armies faced each other. 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. This legendary battle marked the only successful invasion of England since Hastings, and the last time a king of England died on the battlefield. But this book is much more than an account of the events of that fateful day. 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 newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, including the recent discovery of Richard III's remains, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
Fortune's wheel -- To conquer or die -- Exile -- Usurpation -- Rebellion -- The rat, the cat and the dog -- A confederacy of rebels -- The spiral of decline -- March to war -- Secret friends -- The Battle of Bosworth -- Our victorious field -- Reward, retribution and reconciliation -- Bosworth rediscovered
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- Political
- Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
- Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485
- Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
- Bataille de Bosworth, Angleterre, 1485
- III, Richard, King of England, 1452-1485
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1485-1603 (Tudors)
- Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485
- NonFiction
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1455-1485 (Guerre des Deux-Roses)
- Narrative non-fiction
- Historical
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1483-1485 (Richard III)
- VII, Henry, King of England, 1457-1509
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- Creator1
- Genre4
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- Political
- Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
- Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485
- Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
- Bataille de Bosworth, Angleterre, 1485
- III, Richard, King of England, 1452-1485
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1485-1603 (Tudors)
- Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485
- NonFiction
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1455-1485 (Guerre des Deux-Roses)
- Narrative non-fiction
- Historical
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1483-1485 (Richard III)
- VII, Henry, King of England, 1457-1509
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- Is Part Of1
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