The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War

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They are an engaging crew, who found themselves besieged by a fanatical and unrepresentative minority who shouted loudest.

‘The Siege of Loyalty House’ Review: Courage and Carnage

Childs admits that we cannot always know, but she does a splendid job of portraying the trauma of being forced together into a tiny space that is all that’s left of a life. John Seacome, an 18th-century historian of the House of Stanley quoted from another account A true and genuine account of the famous and ever memorable siege of Lathom-House in the County of Lancaster: [1]

The book conveys in sobering detail the relentless grind of modern warfare: bursts of intense, lethal action, followed by periods of tedious waiting, both extremes usually accompanied by lousy food and few creature comforts. But the horrors notwithstanding, once it was over, many men found it hard to adjust to civilian life. ‘We missed the camaraderie, the comradeship we’d got used to,’ said Trooper Len Newman. Extraordinary, thrilling, immersive ... at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power' Simon Schama Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen's daughter Sami Sheen, 19, wears only white lace lingerie for Halloween as she poses with a friend

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Mauricio Umansky dines with Dorit Kemsley's husband... after denying he is dating DWTS partner Emma Slater amid Kyle Richards split Utterly beautiful… One of the best history books I’ve ever read. Suzannah Lipscomb Not Just the Tudors podcast BOOKS OF THE YEARJohn Stamos pays tribute to Matthew Perry as he reminisces over sweet gesture on Friends set 20 years ago: 'I never forgot that' Childs reveals brilliantly the world of the Civil War in the grain of sand that is Basing House. She captures the horror, the courage, the sheer humanity of those, both besiegers and besieged , who endured the long, desperate lulls punctuated by intense episodes of visceral violence. Childs is too subtle a writer – though she has a nice line in pungent ribaldry– to over stress the obvious parallels with our own distracted times. Yet the mid-17th century was, too, an age of ‘decayed trade, harvest failure, epidemics and wild weather’, though only recently would one have added siege warfare to the parallels with Europe’s present. After the Restoration the property was regained by the Derby family, and in the early part of the eighteenth century it was still occasionally inhabited by them, [11] but Knowsley Hall succeeded Lathom House as the principal seat of the Stanley family. The Siege of Loyalty House is not only deeply researched. Childs has composed a wonderfully poetic narrative and adds a touch of the gothic' The Times A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know' Hilary Mantel