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Article Excerpt
God's Fury, England's Fire: A History of the English Civil Wars
Michael Braddick
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Allen Lane, 2008
758 pages, 30 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 978 713 99632 6
This is a serious book about a serious subject. For Michael Braddick the English CM1 Wars are a story of miscalculations, suffering and anxiety. The book is in three parts: the Crisis of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1642), War (1642-6) and Revolution (1642-9). While Braddick describes the astonishing advances made during this traumatic decade in political, economic and religious innovation, he cannot forget the massive loss of life and damage to property which he believes occurred fortuitously and unnecessarily. Indeed, religious toleration, republican representative government and the abolition of monarchy were highly...
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