The red rose and the white : the Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487 / John Sadler

Includes bibliographical references and index

The art of war in the fifteenth century -- The nature of kingship and the House of Lancaster -- The path to conflict 1453-1455 -- First blood - First St Albans 22 May 1455 -- Blore Heath 23 September 1459 and the rout of Ludford Bridge 12/13 October 1459 -- Northampton 10 July 1460 and Wakefield 30 December 1460 -- Mortimer's Cross 2 February 1461; Second St Albans 17 February 1461 -- 'Palmsunday field' - Towton 29 March 1461 -- War in the north 1461-1463 -- Hedgeley Moor 25 April 1464 and Hexham 14 May 1464 -- The overmighty subject - Warwick the Kingmaker 1464-1469; the battles of Edgecote (26 July 1469) and Empingham (12 March 1470) -- The road to Barnet 14 April 1471 -- Tewkesbury 4 May 1471 -- 'This sunne of York': the Yorkist age 1471-1483 -- 'Under the hog' - Richard III and Bosworth 22 August 1485 -- Stoke Field 16 June 1487