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Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008153656
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0008283982
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell's armies at the battle of Worcester. With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and 10,000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught and follow his father to the block? At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries and with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell's soldiers on his tail and a vast price on his head? The next six weeks would form the most memorable and dramatic of Charles' life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception and relying on grit, fortitude and good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree - an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; he disguised himself as a servant and as one half of an eloping couple. Once restored to the throne as Charles II, he told the tale of his escapades to Samuel Pepys, who transcribed it all. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys's account and many others to retell this epic adventure.
Author : Martyn R. Beardsley
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526725738
The English king’s epic escape from his own country is thrillingly recounted in this authoritative history. Though the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed him king in 1649, Charles II faced a formidable enemy in England. His attempt to reclaim the throne ended in defeat at the Battle of Worcester—and thus began the battle to save his own life. Pursued wherever he went by soldiers from the conflict as well as local militia, Charles donned peasant clothing, crudely cut his hair, and tried to adopt a rustic accent. With the secret help of a succession of loyal citizens, he walked till his feet were shredded, waded rivers, coolly mixed with anti-royalists and enemy troopers—and, famously, hid in an oak tree. Never sure of who could be trusted, his peregrinations eventually led to a port in West Sussex where he could secure passage to safety across the Channel. “Unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community, college, and university library Historical Royal British Biographies collections.” —Midwest Book Review
Author : Ted Barris
Publisher : Dundurn.com
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771024747
One night in 1944, eighty airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
Author : Georgette Heyer
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402236013
A fascinating look into a tumultuous interlude in British history and the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This brilliantly entertaining novel is a fictionalization of the true story of Charles II (May 29, 1630 February 6,1685), charting his daring flight to France after the Battle of Worcester, where Cromwell and his Protestant forces defeated the Catholic king.For six weeks, Charles' life was in danger as he hid in the English countryside, disguised as a servant, unable to find a way across heavily guarded borders.His loyal courtiers were appalled by the ease and glee with which he adopted his new humble identity, insisting on chatting and even drinking with ostlers and houseboys.Two young women were instrumental in his eventual escape and one of them became a lifelong friend of the exiled king.
Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408851715
Charles Spencer tells the shocking stories and fascinating fates of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant in this Sunday Times bestseller 'Seamless, pacy and riveting ... exceptional' ALISON WEIR 'The virtues of a thriller and of scholarship are potently combined' TOM HOLLAND 'Outstanding: a thrilling tale of retribution and bloody sacrifice' JESSIE CHILDS __________________ January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering and slaughter endured by his people. On an icy winter's day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, the King of England was executed. When the dead king's son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those – the lawyers, the judges, the officers on the scaffold – responsible for his father's death. Bestselling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision. A powerful tale of revenge from the dark heart of royal history and a fascinating insight into the dangers of political and religious allegiance in Stuart England, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.
Author : Michael Walsh,Don Jordan
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748126545
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were remarkable men, including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh bring these remarkable figures and this astonishing story vividly to life an engrossing, bloody tale of plots, spies, betrayal, fear and ambition.
Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780220680
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.
Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691259253
A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts—including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions—that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape. Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.
Author : Christopher Pagliuco
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1609493028
This book delves into the history of Edward Whalley and William Goffe who became Major Generals in Oliver Cromwell's famous Ironsides Brigade during the English Civil War. Off the field, Whalley and Goffe had the audacity to push for the trial and execution of their king; an action unprecedented in world history. They became hunted fugitives upon the restoration of the monarchy. King Charles II quickly issued forgiveness to all his English subjects, all except the men who tried and killed his father.
Author : Harold M. Weber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813184883
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
Author : Samuel Pepys,William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard Ollard
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1841195170
The definitive account of six fateful weeks in British history; Charles II's escape after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 is an extraordinary tale of adventure and suspense. This new edition of Richard Ollard's classic book vividly reconstructs the six weeks during which the King was on the run. His great determination and good humour through it all won the admiration of many who risked their lives to aid him. Tremendously readable, fast-paced and a fascinating view of life in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Earl Charles Spencer Spencer
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312266499
The Ninth Earl Spencer offers a chronicle of his family, discussing how their history parallels that of England and drawing from previously inaccessible sources to trace the Spencer's rise from medieval sheep-farmers to the late Princess Diana. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Charles Stuart,Samuel Pepys,Ben Humphrey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Escapes
ISBN : 0957242123
Charles Stuart's escape from The Battle of Worcester in 1651 is one of the English monarchy's most significant events. Not only did his escape ensure the eventual continuation of the institution of the monarchy but the feat itself is truly remarkable. Charles dictated the account of his escape to Samuel Pepys years later and it is one of the finest primary sources of its kind. The Battle of Worcester Society is thrilled to be able to bring this work, once again, to the public domain. Along with supporting information and an introduction written by the society's President and former Chairman the text is presented in this book along with Pepys' notes.
