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Fatal Colours - Towton 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle (Hardcover)
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Fatal Colours - Towton 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle (Hardcover)
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The battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and
brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with
murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the
first War of the Roses. Variously described as the largest,
longest, and bloodiest battle on English soil, Towton was fought
with little chance of escape and none of surrender. Yet, as if too
ghastly to contemplate, the battle itself and the turbulent reign
of Henry VI were neglected for centuries. Combining medieval
sources and modern scholarship, George Goodwin colorfully
re-creates the atmosphere of fifteenth-century England. From the
death of the great Henry V and his baby son s inheritance first of
England and then of France, Goodwin chronicles the vicious
infighting at home in response to the vicissitudes of the Hundred
Years War abroad. He vividly describes the pivotal year of 1450 and
a decade of breakdown for both king and kingdom, as increasingly
embittered factions struggle for a supremacy that could be secured
only after the carnage of Towton. Fatal Colours includes a cast of
strong and compelling characters: a warrior queen, a ruthless
king-making earl, even a papal legate who excommunicates an entire
army. And at its center is the first full explanation for the
crippling incapacity of the enduringly childlike Henry VI founder
of Eton and King s College, Cambridge. With a substantive and
sparkling introduction by David Starkey, Fatal Colours brings to
life a vibrant and violent age.
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