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A ruthless pursuit of power

The brief, dramatic reign of Richard III will always fascinate us. Michael Hicks has added to the considerable body of work on the king with this important new study, which eschews a broad survey of Richard’s life and times in favour of a more focused look at Richard the man.

This is not, as the cover blurb enthusiastically claims,

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