Rebels and Traitors - Softcover

Davis, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846056330 ISBN 13: 9781846056338

Publisher: Century, 2009

Synopsis

Rebels and Traitors is a ground-breaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey s first love in historical fiction, the English Civil War. Sweeping in scope and fraught with the same drama and passion, Lindsey s epic novel does the same for this conflict as Margaret Mitchell s Gone with the Wind did for the American Civil War. Rebels and Traitors is a masterpiece of historical storytelling which tells with startling realism what it was like to have fought in the front line of the battles and politics of the era. It tells the story of a man, Gideon Jukes and a woman Juliana Lovell, caught on opposite sides of the Parliamentarian/Royalist divide but fated to be brought together by adversity, loss and mutual attraction.But before this can happen, the terrible events of the seven years that King Charles waged war on his own people must be endured, and then, the day in January 1649 when the world was turned upside down and the King was executed. It is in this crucible that Gideon and Juliana love will be forged.

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Review:

'Davies is a prolific and popular writer, with a wide following for her thrillers set in the classical world. This is something different, large-scale and very ambitious. The word "epic" is overused, but this book deserves it. Davies never forgets that this is not the "English" civil war, but a conflict fought in Wales, Ireland and Scotland as well ... Her research has been assiduous and detailed, her commitment to the subject is impressive, and the background detail is often eye-opening.' (The Observer)

'Every now and then along comes a historical novel with such scope and ambition that it takes your breath away ... So it is appropriate that Lindsey Davis's monumental English Civil War epic, Rebels and Traitors, is billed as the equivalent of Margaret Mitchell's American blockbuster Gone With The Wind ... Rebels and Traitors is as much an informative history lesson as a gripping historical novel and Davis spares us none of the terrible realities of this disastrous war – the slaughter of innocents, the break-up of families, the shattered dreams and the desperate struggle to survive. A magnificent evocation of time and place.' (Lancashire Evening Post)

Book Description:

Rebels and Traitors is an absolute epic masterpiece with poignant and convincing characterisation and razor-sharp historical realism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846056330
• ISBN 13: 9781846056338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752