Ross's superbly illustrated analysis uses all the resources of modern historical scholarship to question the traditional picture of the Wars of the Roses. He reconstructs the mixture of loyalty, kinship, ambition, self-interest and self-preservation that motivated the combatants. He shows the reader the reality of the hand-to-hand slogging matches that made up most of the fighting, the chilly miseries of winter campaigning, the truth about the number of casualties involved.
Author: Charles Ross
Title: The War of the Roses: A Concise History
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: London: Thames and Hudson, 1976
Physical Description: Hardcover; Quarto; 190p
Condition: Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Some light marginalia in text-block.
Comments: Clean copy
