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A review by jordssh
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Favourite quote - About the botched execution of Margaret Pole. - “Nearly a century of butchery was coming to an end not by choice but by default: almost all the potential victims were now dead.” pg. 5.
Very entertaining and engaging recount of the era. I knew some of this from school and horrible histories which didn;t offer much detail; being able to fill in those gaps in my knowledge was great.
Sometimes the switching between people’s names and their titles confused me. Especially as this was during a time when titles kept getting passed around as people kept dying or getting exiled, and everyone has one of five names. But I can hardly blame Dan Jones for that. He did his best to clearly tell the tale of a VERY complex time in history in 300 pages and did a good job of it.
Very entertaining and engaging recount of the era. I knew some of this from school and horrible histories which didn;t offer much detail; being able to fill in those gaps in my knowledge was great.
Sometimes the switching between people’s names and their titles confused me. Especially as this was during a time when titles kept getting passed around as people kept dying or getting exiled, and everyone has one of five names. But I can hardly blame Dan Jones for that. He did his best to clearly tell the tale of a VERY complex time in history in 300 pages and did a good job of it.