Richard III
The Self-Made King

I am not as "in awe" of this book as many reviewers are. I will say this for Hicks. The amount of research he did for the book is very impressive but..... was it really necessary to put every thing he dug up into the book? I am referring to the hundreds of names and ranks he fills the first two hund......more

Not for those unfamiliar with Richard's life or unwilling to wade through a lot of minutiae. Sometimes it is fascinating minutiae, but it can be tedious as well. Still, there is a lot of information in the weeds about how Richard ran his household as both Duke of Gloucester and (briefly) King of Eng......more

An excellent biography of Richard III, neither praising him as a saint or vilifying him as devil, Hicks digs into the details of his life, tracing his life from birth to Bosworth field, determined throughout to very much put him in context of the times he lived in, questioning all the sources, track......more

This book does exactly as intended, contributes to the wider academic research and understanding of Richard’s life and the period. The research is meticulous and highlights a level of understanding of this topic that few others could rival. Those looking for a generalist, popular history, will be di......more

This is the best book about Richard III that I have read, and I have read quite a few, having been introduced to the man by my mother, a member of the Richard III Society, at an early age. The strength of the book is that the author has no axe to grind, either for or against Richard, but discusses h......more