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

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605

Antonia Fraser

347 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced

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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 Ca...

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