Achieve Ravenspur: Rise Of The Tudors (The Wars Of The Roses, #4) Narrated By Conn Iggulden Categorized In Pamphlet

began this series in the beginning of October, What I just realized that I read the entire series indays! I never intended to gobble it up that fast, but I had allbooks sitting here and I just could not stop myself.


This last chapter in The War of Roses covers the final years of the York's trying to keep hold of the crown and Margaret of Anjou trying to restore the Lancaster's.
All the while the Tudor's lurk in the background, Some of the worst battles for the crown are included here, and the author writes them well,

Many readers were disappointed in the author's ending, He condenses the rise of Tudor in the lastpages, For me, that was fine, This was not about the Tudors, It was about the Yorks and Lancasters and the ending satisfied me, I think it leaves the door open for sitelinkConn Iggulden to write "The Reign of The Tudors"you hearing me Mr.
Iggulden This book follows the author's trilogy on England's War of the Roses which I finished reading overyears ago, At the time I finished that series I was somewhat critical of how the author ended his trilogy, The last book ended shortly after the Battle of Towton in, In my understanding of English history the War of the Roses didn't definitively end until the Battle of Bosworth Field in, In my opinion the War was not over and there was some significant history yet to be played out and ath book was needed.
Well someyears later this is that missing book and it completes the story started in the trilogy and it is every bit as good as the three books that preceded it.


"Ravenspur" begins inand ends in, It covers the dual reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV and climaxes in the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in August of.
Since this history is relatively well known I do not think there is any danger of my mentioning anything that might be considered a spoiler but I do not want to go into too much detail and diminish the reading experience.
The value of this book is in the telling of the story, It is historical fiction and by that I mean that it is an accurate portrayal of the history in question by supplying dialogue to the real participants in that history.
This is my idea of good historical fiction, Stories that are simply dropped into a historical period without regard or interaction with any significant historical event or personality are, to me, merely period pieces and not true historical fiction.
Conn Iggulden has clearly mastered my preferred form of this genre and joins my other favorite such author, Jeff Shaara, in my esteem and gratitude.


While the dialogue the author provides makes it technically a fiction the fact that the history is completely accurate and the dialogue supplied is true to the character and motivations of the person it is attributed to makes this history with impact.
Reading a history can be informative and thought provoking but reading history in the manner demonstrated by books like this one makes an impression on a reader that a simple history could never achieve.
In this book you feel for the characters and identify with them, You understand their fears and motivations, You feel their sorrows and disappointments and their angers and hatreds and if there is anything that reading English history can provide it's a complete range of human emotions and motivations.
The brutality of the battles, the murders, executions, betrayals, treachery, manipulations, immorality, etc, depicted during the course of thesebooks is just too much to even begin to describe, Can you imagine going into partnership with the person that had your father and brother killed Could you further understand offering your daughter in marriage to the son of that same person How about killing your wife's father knowing that your wife will absolutely know what you did That is just a little sample of the behavior of English nobility in theth century.
This, to say the least, is a very entertaining and informative history of the end of the War of Roses and more than worth reading.
However, if you haven't read the trilogy that precedes this book I suggest you read that first, It probably isn't necessary but I wish I hadn't discovered the trilogy when I did as theyear time lag made remembering the characters a bit difficult at first.
It would have been a better experience if i could have read allbooks one after the other or, at least,

in a much shorter time frame.
Nevertheless, reading the trilogy first will give you a complete understanding of the history of this period and it will be easier to trace the evolution in motivations that occur.
Apparently, loyalty wasn't a strong virtue amongth century nobility, Enjoy the read. England,. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, The Yorkist king Edward IV is driven out of England, his wife and children forced to seek sanctuary from the House of Lancaster.
Yet rage and humiliation prick Edward back to greatness, He lands at Ravenspur, with a halfdrowned army and his brother Richard at his side, Though every hand is against them, though every city gate is shut, they have come home, The brothers York will not go quietly into banishment, Instead, they choose to attack, Yet neither Edward nor Richard realize that the true enemy of York has yet to reveal himself, Far away, Henry Tudor has become a man, He is the Red Dragon 'the man of destiny' who seeks to end the Wars of the Roses, His claim will carry him to Bosworth Field, There will be silence and the mourning of queens, There will be selfsacrifice and terrible betrayals, Two royal princes will be put to death, There will be an ending and a new royal house will stand over them all, Conn Iggulden has become much more experienced as a historical fiction writer,his work has grown gradually more nuanced, This book has better balance when it comes to bending for historical accuracy, changes made for the fictional part of the story.
It is also more political story about fighting for the throne, power and the wealth that comes with power, It is different compared to his other military historical fiction that was mostly about famous battles,

This book is well written, as exciting, as vivid as i expect from Iggulden but it is also history/ story full of the ugly sides of humanity.
It is arguably his best work when it comes writing about important historical figures, their inner world as balanced, real people of this historical period but at the same time i'm glad to get out of the head of these kings, nobles, princes, ladies.


This is a story about killing your brothers, cousins, longtime friends for more power, for the throne, Not to mention the thousands of peasant boys, commoners, their families that was annihilated because a York or a Lancaster king couldnt keep his crown foryears.


As a fictional story about this part of English history in hindsight its almost funny that a Tudor son of common Welsh soldier won the war in the end over The main Plantagenet houses.
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