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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Blood Sisters The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses Author:Sarah Gristwood To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a “cousins war.? The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. While the battles themselves were fought by men, a handful of powe... more »rful women would prove just as decisive as the clashing armies. As historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, these mothers, wives, and daughters were locked in a web of loyalty and betrayal that would ultimately bring down the Plantagenets and replace them with an obscure group of claimants: the Tudors.
In an epic narrative spanning generations and regimes, Gristwood offers a provocative reassessment of the Wars of the Roses, unveiling the courageous women who paved the way for a new English dynasty.« less