The Road Not Taken by Frank Mclynn
Investigates the seven occasions when England came closest to revolution: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Jack Cade rising of 1450, the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, the English Civil War of the 1640s, the Jacobite Rising of 1745-6, the Chartist Movement of 1838-48 and the General Strike of 1926.
Authoritative and fascinating account… McLynn has delivered a scholarly and hugely informative book -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *
McLynn is an astonishingly prolific historianHis books are always elegantly written, highly opinionated and enormously enjoyable, and this one…is among his best -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Has anybody done more – done as much – as Frank McLynn in writing intelligent, combative, thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable history? Personalities essential to the narrative appear brilliantly…we have in this quite outstanding book an arguable-with, character-rich account of longed-for ends grimly -- Edward Pearce * Independent *
One of our most readable historians, McLynn has produced another tidy volume rich with intelligent wrangling -- Christopher Silvester * Daily Express *
McLynn is a hugely knowledgeable guide to these great events, and is unfailingly thought-provoking -- Simon Griffith * Mail on Sunday *
McLynn is an astonishingly prolific historianHis books are always elegantly written, highly opinionated and enormously enjoyable, and this one…is among his best -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Has anybody done more – done as much – as Frank McLynn in writing intelligent, combative, thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable history? Personalities essential to the narrative appear brilliantly…we have in this quite outstanding book an arguable-with, character-rich account of longed-for ends grimly -- Edward Pearce * Independent *
One of our most readable historians, McLynn has produced another tidy volume rich with intelligent wrangling -- Christopher Silvester * Daily Express *
McLynn is a hugely knowledgeable guide to these great events, and is unfailingly thought-provoking -- Simon Griffith * Mail on Sunday *
Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specializes in biographies and military history. He has written over 20 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, and Marcus Aurelius. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224072939 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224072935 |
| Title | The Road Not Taken |
| Author | Frank Mclynn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year 2013 (UK) |
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