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Carregando... Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudorsde Chris Skidmore
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Pleasant to read and to follow the characters, trying if possible, to understand that rough period. A lesson to understand how politics can think of the common people as insignificant things. Even today. Even possibly near our home. A lire pour comprendre une période de l'histoire très turbulente. Accessible si on a déjà eu l'occasion de faire la connaissance d'Henri V, Edward IV ou Henri VII. Où si on a déjà pleuré sur le sort des princes assassinés. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The chapter that covers Bosworth proved the most interesting. I like how the author dissected the battle and added personality to the people involved. Thought Henry VII's years on the throne would've been covered in detail, bearing in mind the book's subtitle, but this isn't the case.
The narrative failed to engage me most of the time and I admit to skimming sections. Like many history books, here is another author who writes epic sentences, littered with punctuation to keep them going. This includes an overuse and misuse of colons, something that always irritates me. ( )