false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255918529m/158620.jpg 158620 7 "Weir does a masterful job of leading the layman through the entwined family trees of England's powerful families and the many usurpers to the throne. . . . [She] has perfected the art of bringing history to life."<br>--Chicago Tribune<br>Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British throne. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal Houses of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. <br>Alison Weir, one of the foremost authorities on the British royal family, brings brilliantly to life both the war itself and the historic figures who fought it on the great stage of England. The Wars of the Roses is history at its very best--swift and compelling, rich in character, pageantry, and drama, and vivid in its re-creation of an astonishing, dangerous, and often grim period of history.<br>"[A] spellbinding chronicle. . . Weir's dark, glorious pageant restores the personal dimension to an oft-told tale without losing sight of a war that shattered feudalism, paved the way for capitalism and weakened the monarchy."<br>--Publishers Weekly<br>"[Weir is] skilled at delineating the many memorable characters of the age. . . . It's a tribute to her skill that she leaves you wanting more."<br>--The Cleveland Plain Dealer<br>AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB 107134 1995 The Wars of the Roses total:488|5:117|4:203|3:139|2:26|1:3| 488 1869 972 45 5 1 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 15:54:53 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 27 05:24:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 08:36:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:21:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 16:18:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 16:21:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 14:28:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 14:32:02 -0700 2009
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Few historians can take such a meaty subject and turn it into something easily digestable.

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