The Wars of the RosesA one volume, essential history of England's longest and bloodiest civil war: the Wars of the Roses. The Real Game of Thrones The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne of England; the story is one of unbridled ambition and murderous treachery. From the 1450s, when the mentally unstable Henry VI struggled to control the violent feuding of his