MICHAEL HICKS is Professor of Medieval History at King Alfred's College, Winchester. He holds three history degrees from English universities and has written extensively on the Wars of the Roses, mainly biographies of important protagonists such as Warwick the Kingmaker, False Fleeting Perjur’d Clarence and Richard III who shaped successive stages of the conflict. He is a regular contributor to history journals and to The Ricardian. PROFESSOR ROBERT O'NEILL, AO D.PHIL, (Oxon), Hon D. Litt.(ANU), FASSA, Fr Hist 5, 4s the Series Editor of the Essential Histories. His wealth of knowledge and expertise shapes the series content and provides up-to-the- minute research and theory. Born in 1936 an Australian citizen, he served in the Australian army (1955-68) and has held a number of eminent positions in history circles, inchiding the Chichele Professorship of the History of War at All Souls College, University of Oxford, 1987-2001, and the Chairmanship of the Board of the Imperial War Museum and the Council of the International Institute for Strategie Studies, London. He is the author of many books including works on the German Army and the Nazi party, and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Now based in Australia on his retirement from Oxford he is the Chairman of the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.Essential Histories The Wars of the Roses 1455-1487