Battle of Bosworth Field certain details of the battle. The multitude of different accounts, mostly based on second- or third-hand information, has proved an obstacle to historians as they try to reconstruct the battle. Their common complaint is that, except for its outcome, very few details of the battle are found in the chronicles. According to historian Michael Hicks, the Battle of Bosworth is one of the worst-recorded clashes of the Wars of the Roses. Henry tried to present his victory as a new beginning for the country; he hired chroniclers to portray his reign as a "modern age" with its dawn in 1485.
J. Allan Bosworth J. Allan Bosworth Allan Bernard Bosworth (1925), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, is an American author of children's adventure books. His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, is also a writer. Bosworth began writing while still a radioman aboard USS "Missouri". World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home. A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the "Chronicle". Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full time basis. He lived in Salem, Virginia,