First class history! This book, even through written in 1957, has lost nothing of its vitality and erudition. And what a story; if history is your thing, then this is first class history.

So, a combination of a good story and excellent writing make this book a keeper.

so good and interesting story

Following his masterful biography of Richard III, Paul Murray Kendall has given us this readable, and often eloquent portrait of Richard Neville, a man who dominated English politics during the middle of the fifteenth century. A man whom Kendall describes as being relegated to a famous oblivion—so w

This is a great read! Despite being a history buff and having read a number of previous books covering this period, I have struggled a bit with names and chronology (too many Richards etc). A biography seemed an unlikely solution but oh my this is quite superb. By putting everything into the context

Kendall delivers another of his quite excellent character portraits of the Wars of the Roses. This was a fairly even-handed treatment of a very colorful character, and therefore more in line with the author's biography of Louis XI than his decidedly partisan coloring of Richard III (not that I minde