The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser

The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605

Antonia Fraser

212 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced

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Antonia Fraser, a popular historian, has delved into archives across Europe to unravel the true story of the plot by fanatical Roman Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I at the opening of Parliament in 1605.

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