Blood in Winter

'You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Rollicking' Telegraph'Gripping' Financial Times'History as it should be told' Alice Loxton A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. Why did the English Civil War break out? From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling portrait of an English people's great political awakening, and of a nation that splintered into bloodshed at a terrifying speed.