Gabrielle Blin ( book reviewer)’s Reviews > Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses > Status Update

« On 22 May 1455 a thirteen-year-old boy stood on a battlefield. This, we must assume, was his first exposure to warfare, although the sights he witnessed on that day would become sadly familiar. The boy was Edward, Earl of March, later to be known as King Edward IV. He was to play a vital role in the conflicts we know today as the Wars of the roses. »