The 'English' Civil War

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	"A remarkable novel on the cultural and religious disorders that would lead to war. It's also eerily topical."

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	"For my money, the best historian of the period."

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	"Vast, compendious: if you only buy one history, make it this one."

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	"Succinct on the military stuff."

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	"Brings the physical realities of the period pungently to life."

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	"Documenting a remarkable and important moment in political consciousness. The 'middling sort' gave voice to ideas of liberty and democracy which would resonate generations later."

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	"Churchill's play, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, imagines the radical groups that briefly flourished after the war and before the dictatorship of Cromwell."

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	"My own novel does something similar, through the eyes of an English painter. "A timeless story of professional compromise and personal betrayal... beautiful" - The Guardian"