The War of the Roses was one of the most violent periods of English history. For over thirty years periods of intense conflict broke out as opposing factions vied for power. As the historian William Stubbs said, "Weak as is the fourteenth century, the fifteenth is weaker still, more futile, more bloody, more immoral." But out of this turbulence arose the strong, consolidated state of Tudor England. R. B. Mowat's brilliant study of these momentous...
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