The Siege of Loyalty House (Childs Jessie); Bodley Head, 2022

A dramatic, immersive and thrillingly original account of a defining episode in the English Civil War

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.

A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil's seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House.

We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester's mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.

Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.

The Siege of Loyalty House is an immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in a war that would turn Britain - and the world - upside down.

Развернуть фото

Смотри также о книге.

Основные характеристики товара

Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781847923721
Автор(ы)	Childs Jessie
Вес	0.57
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	история
Издатель	Bodley Head
Издательство	Bodley Head
Кол-во страниц	334
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	334
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Тип обложки	твердая