Title: Thin, not well organised.
Product review: As a civil war fought in quick campaigns, Hicks explains that far less documentation survives from the Wars of the Roses than from other period conflicts, such as the Hundred Years War. Even given this lack of historical information on the combatants, their numbers, their equipment, and the exact sites of the battles, Hicks's volume still feels thin. It's also poorly organised, out of chronological order. One chapter lists the outbreak for each of the three phases of the war, even though these phases were ten to fifteen years apart. Then a later chapter lists the other details of each campaign. Overall, it's far less complete a general reference than some of the other Osprey Essential Histories, such as Anne Curry's _The Hundred Years War_.
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