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Title: Readable, good background, mostly anti-Richard
Review: This is one of the more readable histories of the Wars of the Roses and as a biography of Richard III, it provides a very welcome background.Richard III is one of the more polarizing subjects for biographers, with some exonerating him of most or all of the charges that the Tudor biographers made against him and depict him as a good monarch, while others depict him as an unrelenting power-seeker and murderer, even beyond the standards for royalty during that time.Abbott is definitely of the latter camp although he doesn't disguise Richard's widely acknowledged bravery in battle and does depict the general atmosphere of murder, treachery, and vindictive cruelty of the day, tacitly contextualizing Richard as a product of his times and upbringing.Overall, this is a very readable biography and contextualizes its subject well, but readers used to modern biography style will miss the lack of source material and citations.
