Richard III – England`s Black Legend - Couverture souple

Seward, Desmond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1605988391 ISBN 13 : 9781605988399

Editeur : Pegasus, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Understandably, the usurping Tudor dynasty blackened the last Plantagenet’s reputation, and some historians claim that Richard’s ‘black legend’ is nothing more than political propaganda.

Yet such an interpretation, as Desmond Seward shows in this powerfully argued book, suggests a refusal to face facts. Even in the king’s lifetime there were rumours about his involvement in the murders of Henry VI and of his nephews, the ‘Princes in the Tower’, while his reign was ‘a nightmare, not least for the king himself’. The real Richard was both chilling and compelling, ‘a peculiarly grim young English precursor of Machiavelli’s Prince’.

Sweeping aside sentimental fantasy, this is a biography that offers a definitive picture of both the age and the man.

‘A well written and colourful account of an intriguing period in English history.’
New York Times

‘Perhaps the best, and certainly the most readable, of recent biographies.’
John Julius Norwich

‘A valuable addition to the file, a biography of strong feeling and firmly held conviction arrived at after long thought… It is most readable.’
Financial Times

Biographie de l'auteur :

Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Ampleforth and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books including The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders, The Hundred Years War, The Wars of the Roses, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry V as Warlord, Josephus, Masada and the Fall of Judaea (da Capo, US, April 2009), Wings over the Desert: in action with an RFC pilot in Palestine 1916-18 (Haynes Military, July 2009) and Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (Haus August 2009).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1605988391
• ISBN 13: 9781605988399
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336