Product Description: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, exercised more than regal power. His death, in battle with a king he put in power and then tried to overthrow, marked the end of an important era in English history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The enthralling and little-known story of the ugly, fat, paranoid, and ruthless king known as "the universal spider" for his incessant machinations. In the year Louis XI was born, just after the 100 Years' War, England still ruled much of France...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the purpose of biography, looks at biographies from ancient Greece to modern times, and examines the techniques these biographers have used

Product Description: There is little general agreement about the battles which have most decisively changed the course of history. Those given the fullest description in this book have been chosen on two considerations: each has played a marked part in the making of history and each illustrates an important change in the making of war...read more

A scholarly study of Richard's life and political career is devoid of moral judgment