{"product_id":"blood-sisters-the-women-behind-the-wars-of-the-roses","title":"Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Gristwood\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780465018314\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBasic Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e432\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eTo contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a \"cousins' war.\" The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. \u003cbr\u003eAs acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in \u003ci\u003eBlood Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. These mothers, wives, and daughters were locked in a web of loyalty and betrayal that would ultimately change the course of English history. In a captivating, multigenerational narrative, Gristwood traces the rise and rule of the seven most critical women in the wars: from Marguerite of Anjou, wife of the Lancastrian Henry VI, who steered the kingdom in her insane husband's stead; to Cecily Neville, matriarch of the rival Yorkist clan, whose son Edward IV murdered his own brother to maintain power; to Margaret Beaufort, who gave up her own claim to the throne in favor of her son, a man who would become the first of a new line of Tudor kings. \u003cbr\u003eA richly drawn, absorbing epic, \u003ci\u003eBlood Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of hopeful births alongside bloody deaths, of romance as well as brutal pragmatism. It is a story of how women, and the power that women could wield, helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age--and the creation of modern England.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses | Sarah Gristwood | Hardcover | 9780465018314 | Used: Like New | European History 1767598","offer_id":50735381086466,"sku":"1767598","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71q3EXmCwZL.jpg?v=1791943845","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/blood-sisters-the-women-behind-the-wars-of-the-roses","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}