Well written and with a wealth of information, I would strongly recommend John Sadler’s book on the bloodiest battle to take place on English soil.

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Sarah Bryson, Author

This new book provides a vivid reconstruction of a bloody fight of attrition. The main body of the text and the photo plate section provide an engaging narrative, supported by timeline tables, maps, notes and a preface. As an account of this immensely important English battle, the book will be very difficult to better and makes many earlier accounts dated and no longer applicable.

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Mr. Sadler has achieved what he set out to do and has produced a readable and understandable account of the battle of Towton and the events leading up to it, especially for those less damiliar with the subject. However, the more knowlegable can find plenty of positive new aspects as well, in particular the chapters covering the period 1400-1460 and the subsequent war in the North between 1461 to 1464. This is covered as an appendices and no doubt draws from Mr. Sadler's earlier book on the subject. But that, as they say, is another review.

Ian Brandt - Medieval Warfare

Towton is a masterful account of a subject which had been much written about over the years. Author John Sadler sets his book apart from the rest by bringing his own background research and imagination into play, bringing a battle which took place over 500 years ago vividly back to life. The index is detailed, there is an extensive bibliography as well as a glossary and appendices.

Suite101.com

An astonishingly complete acocunt of this most significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Impeccable research, clear, concise and fascinating maps, and a narrative that persuades you you're an onlooker at the very time these astounding events took ;place, this is as complete a history of an English medieval battle as I have ever read. Staggering.

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