Warwick the Kingmaker - English Men of Action

Macmillan & Co 1909

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, was a strong man, born at the commencement of Henry VI's unhappy minority. His coming of age coincided with the outburst of national rage caused by the end of the disastrous French War. His birth placed him at the head of one of the great factions in the nobility, whose strength of body and mind enabled him to turn that headship to full account. How he dealt with the problems which inevitable necessity laid before him we shall endeavour to relate...