Richard III: Brother, Protector, King

"Chris Skidmore MP has published three books on early modern English history. The most recent, Richard III: Brother, Protector, King has been well reviewed and went down very well with our editor here at Five Books, Sophie, who admired its use of primary sources. There is no very obvious contemporary resonance, as there is with our other authors, although part of Skidmore’s thesis is that even if Richard III wasn’t responsible for killing his nephews, many people thought he was and so swapped sides. Certainly his reign and its termination at Bosworth offer Skidmore’s ambitious colleagues a lesson in how not to conduct a leadership campaign."