Richard III Penguin Monarchs by Rosemary Horrox

No English king has so divided opinion both during his reign and in the centuries since more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the neverconfirmed murder of his young nephews the Princes in the Tower and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally he inspired great loyalty in his followers. In this enlightening evenhanded study Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standar Hardback