Faith and Treason The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

Name: Faith and Treason The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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ISBN: 9780385471909

ISBN-10: 0385471904

ISBN-13: 9780385471909

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Authors: Antonia Fraser

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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 Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the Parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic, Robert Catesby, was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Antonia Fraser is the author of numerous internationally bestselling biographies, including "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and "Cromwell: Our Chief of Men".