Yellow Badge, The - Softcover

Stephen Clements

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904959091 ISBN 13: 9781904959090

Publisher: Paul Mould Publishing, 2004

Edward Cooper hated Jews. He had been brought up in a country where the people knew the right thing to do with the infidels; kill them all. He had also been raised to respect women and to protect the weak and so, when he witnesses an assault on a Jewish couple by two wealthy young nobles, he is faced with an impossible dilemma. His solution leads him to question his beliefs, to become estranged from his family and finally to become involved in a conflict which may claim his friends' lives as well as his own.

Against this background of rampant anti-Semitism, the young man finds himself drawn into a world he simply does not understand, a world of violence, prejudice, murder, rape and child sacrifice, and soon discovers that the simple rules by which he lives are no longer adequate. Set in the England of 1320, The Yellow Badge mixes history with fiction to create a disturbing picture of English racism and hatred over six centuries before the world had ever heard of the Nazis.

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A young man finds himself drawn into a world of violence, prejudice, murder, rape, and child sacrifice. He has been raised to respect women and to protect the weak, so, when he witnesses an assault on a Jewish couple by two wealthy young nobles, he becomes involved in a conflict that could claim his life.

About the Author:

Stephen Clements was born in Cambridge in 1961 and raised in a small village nearby; an upbringing which resulted in his developing a passion for all things biological. Having taken a degree in Ecology at the University of East Anglia, he moved onto UWIST in Cardiff for his Masters before embarking on a career as a Science teacher, a move that brought him to live in Lincolnshire.

Stephen's interests are angling; he is secretary of the Sleaford Angling Club, gardening, and photography, but it is his love of history, fuelled by a diet of epic films, which has inspired him to begin writing novels from such diverse time periods as the American Civil War to England in the thirteenth century with more in the pipeline.

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