Nation in Conflict - Battle of Tewkesbury
Posted on Wednesday 2nd May 2012











Further Reading
Tewkesbury
(Paperback - 160 pages)
ISBN: 9781844151905
by Steven J Goodchild
Only £12.99
On 4 May 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Duke of Somerset and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses.
Edward's overwhelming victory secured for him the throne of England and led to the near ruin of the Lancastrian cause. Steve Goodchild's gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, is the first to take fully into account the landscape of the…
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