Faith and Treason: The Gunpowder Plot - Hardcover

Fraser, Antonia

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ISBN 10: 0385471890 ISBN 13: 9780385471893

Verlag: Doubleday of Canada, 1996

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Book by Fraser Antonia

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The author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII presents a compelling popular history of one of the most famous conspiracies in British history, the attempt in 1605 to blow up the House of Parliament and King James I. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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s English history to life like Antonia Fraser.  In bestselling books like Mary Queen of Scots and The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she has shown why she is the finest of comtemporary popular historians, one who by meticulous research portrays the dramas of the past in all their richness and revealing detail.  Now, in Faith and Treason, she re-creates the seventeenth-century terrorist conspiracy known as the Gunpowder Plot.

In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it.  A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed in position thiry-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Wesminster.  Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the pa

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• Verlag: Doubleday of Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0385471890
• ISBN 13: 9780385471893
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 347