Michael Braddick: 2 books
God's Fury, England's Fire
A New History of the English Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First...
The Common Freedom of the People
John Lilburne and the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through...