Vicious battles, powerful monarchs, and Royal intrigue abound in this "gripping, complex, and sensational" (Hilary Mantel) true story of the War of the Roses--a struggle among three brothers, two of whom became kings, and the inspiration for Shakespeare\'s Richard III .
As their symbols were a red rose for Lancaster and a white.
In 15th-century England, two Royal families, the House of York and the House of Lancaster, fought a bitter, decades-long civil war for the English throne.
Vicious battles, powerful monarchs, and Royal intrigue abound in this "gripping, complex, and sensational" (Hilary Mantel) true story of the War of the Roses--a struggle among three brothers, two of whom became kings, and the inspiration for Shakespeare\'s Richard III
