When I first began thinking about this book, I knew it would be a study of the psychology of power. Richard and Henry make a fascinating pair - so closely related by blood, such utterly different men - whose intertwined lives formed an extraordinary and fateful moment in England's history.
Drawing a psychological portrait is only made possible by joining scattered dots, rather than tracing a continuous line. I've set out to join dots from the surviving records of Richard's and Henry's lives into a coherent representation of two very human beings: to investigate not only what they did, but why they did it.
While the subject of this book has been extensively covered, few authors achieve the blend of rigorous historical research and engaging narrative as successfully as this one. Fans of English history, especially the Later Middle Ages, will find this work both informative and captivating.
The endnotes to the book show the contemporary sources from which I've worked. There's plenty of room within and between them for alternative perspectives, but in the pages that follow you'll find the Richard and the Henry I've come to see.
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