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Bosworth - The Birth of the Tudors (Paperback)
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Bosworth - The Birth of the Tudors (Paperback)
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Loot Price R337
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Richard III and Henry Tudor's legendary battle: one that changed
the course of English history. 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 14 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 BOSWORTH 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 60 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.
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