Providence Lost
'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king… Celý popis ↓
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Providence Lost
'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. *****************SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020England, 1651.
By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. He is master of Britain and Ireland.But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World.When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken
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