Houses of Lancaster and York (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) e-bog

James Gairdner illuminates one of the more obscure periods in English historythe late 14th to the late 15th centuriesin this engrossing volume. There are few contemporary narratives of the events of this stormy age, which is described in the Preface as being full of the sad calamities endured by kingsthe sudden changes of fortune in great menthe glitter of chivalry and the horrors of civil warbut Gairdners work opens a window into the period.