Warwick The Kingmaker
Charles W. Oman
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Description
Charles Oman wrote this life of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, for the English Men of Action series, first published by Macmillan in 1891 and reprinted many times through 1916. A portrait from the Rous Roll faces the title. Oman opens by calling Warwick probably the least known of all the great men of action who have guided English policy since the Conquest.
For ten years, Oman says, the Kingmaker was the first subject of the English crown, yet most readers know him only through Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth or Lytton's Last of the Barons. Seventeen chapters trace the house of Neville, Warwick's youth, and the cause of York, through the first battle of St Albans, his captaincy of Calais, and exile. Towton Field, the triumph of King Edward, and the fatal quarrel between earl and king follow, ending at Barnet, where the Kingmaker fell.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charles W. Oman |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 386 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |