Women at War, Plantagenet Style: Five Questions for Sarah Gristwood, Author of Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

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Women at War, Plantagenet Style: Five Questions for Sarah Gristwood, Author of Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

<img alt="" src="http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Gristwood-Sarah-no-credit.jpg" width="203" height="270" align="right" />The period of British history known as the Wars of the Roses recently came to attention, more than 600 years after it ended, when the bones of the late, unlamented Richard III were found in a parking lot near the spot where he fell in battle and was unceremoniously buried. But the war was not all about kings and battle: the Wars of the Roses involved women as much as men, some, as British historian Sarah Gristwood tells us, both tough and more than a little scary.

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