DEVIL LAND: ENGLAND UNDER SIEGE 1588-1688

Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. This dazzling, original history reveals England as a failed state, endemically unstable and continually rocked by devastating events. Eyewitness accounts bring to life a century of conflict, from the unlikely failure of the Spanish Armada before an unmarried heretic with no heir, through regicide and a republican Commonwealth, to the Dutch invasion of the not-so 'Glorious Revolution’.