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  • The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story

    (By Jessie Childs)

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    Author Jessie Childs
    “Book Descriptions: It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.

    A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Author Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil's seat. Its defenders called it "Loyalty House."

    We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester's mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved, and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies, and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.

    Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women, and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.”

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