The Brothers York : An English Tragedy eAudiobook MP3
by Thomas (Publishing Director | Penguin Press) Penn
Narrated by Roy McMillan
eAudiobook MP3
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Brought to you by Penguin. In early 1461, a teenage boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England.
He was Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York.
The country, crippled by economic crisis, insurgency, and a corrupt and bankrupt government, was in need of a new hero.
Charismatic, able and ruthlessly ambitious, Edward and his two younger brothers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty which laid the foundations for a renewal of English royal power.
Yet a web of grudges and resentments grew between them, generating a destructive sequence of conspiracy, rebellion, deposition, usurpation and murder.
The brutal end came on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field, with the death of the youngest brother, then Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor.
The Brothers York is the story of three remarkable brothers, two of whom were crowned kings of England and the other an heir presumptive, whose fatal antagonism was fuelled by the mistrust and vendettas of the age that brought their family to power.
The house of York should have been the dynasty that the Tudors became.
Its tragedy was that it devoured itself.
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