Last of the Barons — Brenda Clarke

'Well researched and dramatic writing' - BOOKLIST A descendant of kings, but not in direct line of succession to the throne, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, saw himself, nevertheless, as the person most competent to rule England. He was the man chiefly responsible for wresting the crown from the feeble Henry VI and setting up his cousin, the Earl of March, as Edward IV. Edward, however, was not the politically inept young man that Warwick believed him to be and his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville alienated almost the entire Neville family. From then on, Warwick's life degenerated into a struggle for political power that eventually led him to the fatal field of Barnet.