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The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War [Hardcover] Childs,
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- Book Title
- Siege of Loyalty House : a Story of the English Civil War
- Item Length
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- Pegasus Books
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Revolutionary
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- Item Weight
- 18.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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An immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in the English Civil War that illuminates the human experience--and human cost--of this devastating war. It was a time of puritans and populism, witch hunts and civil war. Between 1643 and 1645, Basing House in Hampshire, England, was besieged three times. To the parliamentary Roundheads, the house symbolized everything that was wrong with England: it was the largest private residence in the country, a bastion of royalism and excess. Its owner, the Marquess of Winchester, reportedly had the motto Love loyalty etched into the windows. Winchester refused all terms of surrender. When he discovered his brother plotting to betray the house, he forced him to hang his accomplices. When the garrison divided along religious lines, Winchester expelled all the Protestants. As royalist strongholds crumbled around the country, the Winchesters--and Basing House--stood firm. The famed architect Inigo Jones designed fortifications; gamekeepers became snipers; and the women hurled bricks at the besiegers. 'Loyalty House', as it was known, became the king's principal garrison. But the drum of the parliamentary army beat ever louder--and closer--and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells the story of these dramatic events, not only recounting the sallies and skirmishes, but the experiences of the men, women, and children caught in the crossfire. What was it like to be under siege, lying in bed with shells crashing through the window? What was it like to conduct a siege, sleeping on frosty fields, receiving news of sick children at home from desperate wives? Ultimately, the story of Basing House is the story of England in the 1640s: a tale of brother against brother, of women on the frontline, of radicalism, iconoclasm, and fanaticism. It is a tale of destruction and derring-do, courage and cowardice, and a house on fire--the true end of an era.
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1639363106
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9781639363100
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Book Title
Siege of Loyalty House : a Story of the English Civil War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Revolutionary
Publication Year
2023
Genre
History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
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This is war as it should be, passionate, brutal, bloody and chatoic, all described in luscious, evocative prose., Describing how individuals get drawn, often haphazardly, into a bloody conflict such as the English Civil War is not an easy task. but Jessie Childs manages it superbly in The Siege of Loyalty House , which tingles with a discerning historical imagination ., She is a gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know., A perfectly crafted triumph of narrative history... one of the most pulsating books on seventeenth-century England I have read., Jessie Childs is one of the finest historians working today; her illuminating, deeply researched, and beautifully written books are never anything short of superlative, and here she does it again. This is a vivid, thrilling story, rendered in delicious prose., Extraordinary. Exhaustively researched and beautifully (and wittily) written, a thrilling and immersive tale that offers the reader a rare window into the terrifying events of the English Civil War when religion and ambition divided families, friends and neighbours. One of the finest books I've read for years, a stunning achievement., In this stunning feat of historical reconstruction, Jessie Childs brings England's brutal civil conflict to life. A work of deep scholarship, The Siege of Loyalty House is gripping, moving, unputdownable., Beautifully written and gripping from first page to last. A sparkling book by one of Britain's finest historians., Perhaps just because the history is so painful, and to some almost incomprehensible, the English Civil War has never really registered in British history as powerfully as it should. That will change with Jessie Childs' extraordinary The Siege of Loyalty House : a thrilling, immersive read, especially searing in our own tormented and besieged times. Her beautiful writing drops the reader deep in the war, sees it through a cast of extraordinary characters from both sides of the terrible conflict, but most of all, shines with a compassionate understanding of human courage, folly, obstinacy and frailty, at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power., Riveting. Childs reconstructs their suffering - near-starvation, filthy water, a smallpox outbreak - with startling immediacy. Her focus is local and English, but the story is human and timeless., Childs draws on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children to tell this thrilling tale of war., A spectacular work of scholarship, this is epic, vital history, sweeping from the great trends and ideas of the time to the individual details of vividly lived lives. This brilliant book takes you into the heart of the English Civil War, the brutal struggle for the sympathies of a country, the men who fought, the women who tried to survive; this is blood, desire and struggle on the page, taking you deep into the seventeenth century world; you can feel its beating heart., Extraordinary: meticulously researched, beautifully written, and heartbreakingly relevant. I urge you to read it.
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