The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson

The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold

Geoffrey Robertson

429 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
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Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer J...

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