A magnificently told and thrilling account of one of the most
dramatic events in British history.
Adrian Tinniswood's magnificent new account of the Great Fire of
London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences,
from that first small blaze in a baker's house in Pudding Lane in
the early hours of September 2nd, 1666 to the inferno that would
devastate the third largest city in the Western world. The
statistics are terrible: 436 acres of closely packed streets
burned; 13,200 houses destroyed; 10 million lost at a time when 10
million represented the City's annual income for 800 years. But the
Great Fire wasn't simply a tragedy of economics or architecture. It
wrecked lives and destroyed livelihoods. It killed and maimed, and
it drove Londoners mad in their quest for vengeance.
By Permission of Heaven pieces together the untold human story of
the Fire and its aftermath -- the panic and terror, the
bewilderment and violence and chaos, the search for scapegoats, the
rebirth of a city. Above all, it provides an unsurpassable
recreation of what happened to schoolchildren and servants,
courtiers and clergymen when the streets of London ran with fire
and "by ye Permission of Heaven, Hell broke loose upon this
Protestant City."
"From the Hardcover edition.
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