David Hipshon: which book?

Hi all
I know there are some posts about these books in the archive, but I am interested in hearing "live" from people here.

If you were to buy or read one of this author's two books - "Richard III and the Death of Chivalry" or "Richard III" [the biography], which would you choose and why?

Thanks for all thoughts!

Janet

The first which is very good and a companion piece to Jones's Bosworth and JAH's Last Days. The other starts well but then he somehow loses courage and sways towards the Pollard theory - a reasonable guy who had to kill his nephews in the summer of 1483, or who knew that they had been killed and didn't admit it.


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Hi all
I know there are some posts about these books in the archive, but I am interested in hearing "live" from people here.

If you were to buy or read one of this author's two books - "Richard III and the Death of Chivalry" or "Richard III" [the biography], which would you choose and why?

Thanks for all thoughts!

Janet

Thank you, Hilary.
 
I have read chunks of the first book online and it certainly looks interesting. From a review I've seen, the other seems to lean to Rosemary Horrox's view that Richard's appointment as Protector was mooted by the Council rather than by Edward IV and the whole of the summer of 1483 was a power struggle of many parts.  
I like Horrox's work on the whole; it is very even and dispassionate. I suspect I'll buy the first one of the David Hipshon books and borrow the biography.:-)

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The first which is very good and a companion piece to Jones's Bosworth and JAH's Last Days. The other starts well but then he somehow loses courage and sways towards the Pollard theory - a reasonable guy who had to kill his nephews in the summer of 1483, or who knew that they had been killed and didn't admit it.


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From: Janet Ashton jaangelfire@...>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2013, 22:06
Subject: David Hipshon: which book?

 

Hi all
I know there are some posts about these books in the archive, but I am interested in hearing "live" from people here.

If you were to buy or read one of this author's two books - "Richard III and the Death of Chivalry" or "Richard III" [the biography], which would you choose and why?

Thanks for all thoughts!

Janet