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The Brothers York is not just a magisterial work of sublime scholarship, it’s a pure page-turner. I couldn’t put it down. The wonderful thing about Thomas Penn is that he makes some of the most familiar stories in English history feel fresh and exciting. — Amanda Foreman

Thomas Penn’s The Brothers York begins with the attempt in 1460 by Richard, Duke of York to seize the crown from the Lancastrian king Henry VI, and follows Richard’s three sons – Edward, Richard and George – through the tumultuous years that followed. 

Vicious battles, powerful monarchs, and royal intrigue abound in this “gripping, complex, and sensational” 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. 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. As their symbols were a red rose for Lancaster and a white rose for York, the conflict became known as the War of the Roses. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers–King Edward IV, and his two younger siblings George and Richard—who became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible. But with Edward’s ascendancy, the brothers began to turn on one another, unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide, usurpation, and regicide. The brutal end came at Bosworth Field in 1485, with the death of the youngest, then Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, progenitor of the Tudor line of monarchs. The Brothers York recounts a conflict that fractured England for a generation “with masterly skill” in which “the tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps out from every page”. As gripping as any historical fiction, Thomas Penn paints “a dramatic portrait of 15th-century England brings keen understanding and a sharp eye for detail to his prodigiously researched, engrossing history of the decades-long fight between Lancaster and York”