Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown. From the time he sees his parents brutally slain and his home destroyed in a bloody Lancastrian power struggle for the crown, young Martin Robsart's life becomes entwined with that of England's royal Plantagenet family. Through the turbulence of civil war, Martin serves his cousins ? Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III ? and learns the cost of loyalty and love in battlefields and bedchambers in a time when life is cheap and treachery hides behind a smile. Through Martin?s eyes, Meredith Whitford?s superbly researched and richly woven novel shows Shakespeare?s conniving and perverse Richard III in a realistic new light ? as a patriot and a lover. Never before has perceived history taken such a surprising turn
… read more...as Whitford corrects the Shakespearean myth and crowns a new hero, bringing back to life the passion and heat of a breathless historical moment that shaped the world ? a moment we know as the War of the Roses ?a time of thorns and treason.Read More read less...