Bradley Cooper sweetly holds hands with daughter Lea, 6, as they enjoy an after-school ice cream run in NYC Depiction of the siege of Basing House by Charles West Cope. Photo: Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 2897

The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs review — the

The Siege of Loyalty House is not only deeply researched. Childs has composed a wonderfully poetic narrative and adds a touch of the gothic' The Times The song "They called her Babylon" by Steeleye Span tells the story of the siege. It appears on their 2004 album of the same name. Jenna Bush Hager reveals how her father George W. Bush's own 'alcohol issues' helped her talk to 10-year-old daughter Mila about Matthew Perry's death

The Siege of Loyalty House is exciting and scholarly, vivid and accessible. It is a perfectly crafted triumph of narrative history: a book that should attract readers daunted by the complexity of the times or put off by the usual scrum and powder of Civil War military history. In fact, it is one of the most pulsating books on seventeenth-century England I have read for many years. The research that underpins it is impressive. But, above all else, it is the kind of book that immerses the reader in an alien world, making the raw experience of life in troubling and violent times feel completely real. Of [the Civil War’s] local epics, none surpasses in fame and drama that of Basing House, and in Jessie Childs it finds at last a writer able to bring out in full its excitement, pathos, glory and tragedy, with a deep political, military and social context. As so many of the defenders of the house were transplanted Londoners, it is a tale that links the heart of Hampshire to the heart of the capital. Local Civil War history does not get better than this. Ugaz’s case is all too familiar in Peru, where powerful groups regularly use the courts to silence journalists by fabricating criminal allegations against them.’

The Siege of Basing House: A Bloody Chapter of the English The Siege of Basing House: A Bloody Chapter of the English

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