{"product_id":"book-cwca","title":"Richard III","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England's most controversial king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard's life and times. \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e examines in intense detail Richard's inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49379277504816,"sku":"BDcwca","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49379277537584,"sku":"ZEcwca","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49379277570352,"sku":"ZMcwca","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cwca-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779181102","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cwca","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}