Author(s): Spencer, Charles
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 21/05/2015,
Pagination: 360 pages, 1 x 8pp colour plates,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781408851777,
Description:
Charles Spencer tells the shocking stories and fascinating fates of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant in this Sunday Times bestseller’Seamless, pacy and riveting … exceptional’ ALISON WEIR’The virtues of a thriller and of scholarship are potently combined’ TOM HOLLAND’Outstanding: a thrilling tale of retribution and bloody sacrifice’ JESSIE CHILDSJanuary, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender?Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering and slaughter endured by his people. On an icy winter’s day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, the King of England was executed.
When the dead king’s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those – the lawyers, the judges, the officers on the scaffold – responsible for his father’s death.
Bestselling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision. A powerful tale of revenge from the dark heart of royal history and a fascinating insight into the dangers of political and religious allegiance in Stuart England, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.
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