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The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story

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  • May 19, 2022
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Jessie Childs
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It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war. A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeent... Show More

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.

A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Author Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil's seat. Its defenders called it "Loyalty House."

We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester's mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved, and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies, and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.

Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women, and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.

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Number of Pages: 336

ISBN: 1847923720

ISBN-13: 9781847923721

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Simon Schama @simon_schama ยท Dec 8, 2022
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this WONDERFUL book also on Economist best books of 2022 - it's thrilling, humane, utterly immersive page- turner
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