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The English Civil War At First Hand (Paperback)
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The English Civil War At First Hand (Paperback)
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List price R392
Loot Price R355
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Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and
Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the
English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and
Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel,
Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated
and great dynasties destroyed: fathers and sons, uncles and cousins
were pitted against each other in defence of their loyalties. The
civil war led to the execution of a king, the beginnings of
sectarian division in Ireland, savage clan warfare in Scotland and
the roots of English socialism. Tristram Hunt avoids adding to the
many, mostly transitory interpretations of the civil war and
instead offers a timeless narrative based on the first-hand
accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events. In doing so
he brings out the voices of the civil war generation - those who
lost sons, who witnessed massacres and who fought for an ideal. In
this book we see their motivations, fears and misery as the horror
of war overwhelmed them. From Cromwell's letters to the memoirs of
a Roundhead wife the civil war era is brought to life in all its
terrible and fascinating glory.
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