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20%OFFHelen Castor - Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses - 9780571216710 - V9780571216710
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Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses

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Description for Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses Paperback. The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485, four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. This title tells how a family survived one of the tempestuous periods in English History. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 278.

A gripping biography of the Paston family set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the Roses from bestselling historian Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, the Paston family in Norfolk family were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571216710
SKU
V9780571216710
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-70

About Helen Castor
Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She-Wolves, was made into a major BBC TV series. Joan of Arc: A ... Read more

Reviews for Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
"'Sharply written, impeccably documented, structured with the trip and pace of a good thriller' Hilary Spurling Daily Telegraph"

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