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**THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**
'A glorious work of history... a gripping and haunting tragedy... There was no book published this year, novels included, that I found richer in character; no plot more taut' - Tom Holland, The Spectator
'A dazzling tour de force of epic royal…
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Richard and Henry, two royal cousins born in the same year, one blessed by an accident of birth, the other by a surfeit of natural talent, each led by fate and temperament to fight one another for England’s crown. It is the stuff of epic drama, as Shakespeare well knew. But also of epic history in the hands of a master craftsman like Helen Castor. Supported by a treasure trove of new research, ‘The Eagle and the Hart’ is destined to become a classic and an indispensable guide to the causes of the bloody Wars of the Roses.
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