My Kingdom for a Horse

From William Shakespeare''s series of history dramas to Sir Walter Scott and George R.R. Martin''s A Song of Ice and Fire, not to mention the smash-hit TV show Game of Thrones, the British civil war of 1455 to 1485 has inspired writers more than any other.

Ed West''s My Kingdom for a Horse illuminates the bloody war fought for thirty long years between the descendants of King Edward III in a batt...