A Peoples History
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Köp båda 2 för 361 krRich, vivid and passionatea moving, lyrical and principled piece of writingPurkiss has a gift for evocation. Independent You begin to get close to what it would have been like to live through the nine momentous years from 1640 to 1649it 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 Purkiss has an eye for the narrative vignette that can illuminate the age. Sunday Times WonderfulPurkiss offers a sumptuous portrait gallery of the men and women who lived, wrote and died during this turbulent periodA joyous read. Daily Telegraph Narrative history at its best: gripping, heartfelt, complex. Mail on Sunday This book vigorously brings the horror and humanity of the conflict to life. Financial Times Light in touch, though grounded in an enormous wealth of documentary material this people's history shows how Englands men and women coped with quite extraordinary times. Scotsman
Diane Purkiss is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and fellow of Keble College. She is the author of the much-admired The Witch in History, Troublesome Things, and the acclaimed history, The English Civil War.