‘Light in touch, though grounded in an enormous wealth of documentary material this “people's history” shows how England’s men and women coped with quite extraordinary times. ‘This book vigorously brings the horror and humanity of the conflict to life.’ Financial Times ‘Narrative history at its best: gripping, heartfelt, complex.’ Mail on Sunday ‘Wonderful.Purkiss offers a sumptuous portrait gallery of the men and women who lived, wrote and died during this turbulent period.A joyous read.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Purkiss has an eye for the narrative vignette that can illuminate the age.’ Sunday Times
‘You begin to get close to what it would have been like to live through the nine momentous years from 1640 to would be hard to imagine anything more irresistible than this rich layer cake of a book, crammed with the stories and the voices that make history human.’ Guardian En este contexto se incluye una serie de conflictos armados denominados guerra civil inglesa o guerras civiles inglesas, que se libraron entre realistas y parlamentarios entre 1642 y 1651, con una gran victoria de Cromwell y la derrota de Carlos II de Inglaterra al término del tercer y último de los enfrentamientos. ‘Rich, vivid and passionate.a moving, lyrical and principled piece of writing.Purkiss has a gift for evocation.’ Independent
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