Bosworth 1485
Psychology of a Battle

Impressive. Revisionist speculative history that effectively redeems Richard III, if one finds the author's arguments plausible...and I must say that I do.......more

Some nice ideas in this work. There is some reinterpretation of events and existing sources but they remain that, reinterpretations rather than truths. The 'new' account of the battle from French sources left me feeling rather disappointed as the actual source document cannot be found (it's a second......more

It's an incredibly informative work; there is quite a bit of information here that was previously unknown to me, and it puts much of the events surrounding the end of the War of the Roses into perspective. However, there's something about the opening 50 pages I found awkward. I can't quite place my......more

This is a fun read, and Jones does an admirable job making his revisionist case. He's on stronger ground in moving the location of the battle than in trying to rehabilitate Richard. While he certainly succeeds in putting to rest some of Shakespeare's Tudor-inspired exaggerations, he utterly fails wh......more

Very education read and clearly well researched. Felt as if some of the language was clunky and there were sentences throughout that felt disjointed. This could be an affect of British vs American English; nonetheless, the book was informative and interesting, but a few sections could’ve been writte......more