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The Rise of the Tudors Author: Chris Skidmore

ISBN: 9780312541392 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 437 Published: 14 January 2014 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 16.3 x 3.9 Description: On the morning of August 22, 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 twenty-eight 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 be the end of the War of the Roses.

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 The Rise Of The Tudors 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, including t...

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