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Bosworth: The Rise Of The Tudors - Chris Skidmore
February 13, 2013
8:10 am
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Bill1978
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While trolling through Amazon looking for books on the Kings of the Plantagenet era, I stumbled across this book that is being released in May 2013

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On the morning of 22 August 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 28-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 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 BOSWORTH 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, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world in an epic saga of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception and the birth of the Tudor dynasty.

Could be an interesting read, I really enjoyed his writing and thoughts on Edward VI

February 13, 2013
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black_mamba
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Sounds interesting! I’ll keep an eye out for it.

At times I almost dream, I too have spent a life the sages' way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out—not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain Dim memories as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again. -- Robert Browning, Paracelsus

February 13, 2013
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KellyMarie
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Oh that sounds quite interesting!! Willl have to have to have a look at that! I guess it’s going to start with talking about Owen Tudor and then continue from there rather than just focusing on Henry VII’s early start?

Woohoo I'm normal...gotta go tell the cat!

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