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God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars

✍ Scribed by Michael Braddick


Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2013;2009
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0141926511

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✦ Synopsis


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 World War.

This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God οΏ½s Fury, EnglandοΏ½s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the kingοΏ½s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God οΏ½ that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, οΏ½GodοΏ½s furyοΏ½ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work...


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