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The Golden Angel
Bringing a fresh perspective on history by combining it with myth and superstition, this duology tells the story of a young man’s fantastical adventures before and during The Great War. 1918, Belgium. We find Tom, now a young Army officer, immersed in the Great War. Remaining always unharmed, he is regarded as bad luck by his fellow soldiers, shunned by all but his faithful batman, Private Watson. Summoned to the town of Tristennes on motorcycle dispatch-riding duty, Tom is driven off the road by an enemy plane and thrown into an adventure stranger than anything he has known before. Assigned the task of protecting The One, a being whose destiny is tied to a golden angel on Tristennes Church, he must take his place in the greatest drama of all – the quest to end the War, on Earth and beyond.
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1645-1647
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The English Civil War
With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out differently. What if, for example, Charles I had capitalized on his victory at Edgehill by attacking London without delay? Could this have ended the war in 1642? His actual advance on the capital in 1643 failed but came close to causing a Parliamentarian collapse how could it have succeeded and what then? Among the many other scenarios, full consideration is given to the role of Ireland (what if Papal meddling had not prevented Irish Catholics aiding Charles?) and Scotland (how might Montrose's Scottish loyalists have neutralized the Covenanters?). The author analyses the plausible possibilities in each thread, throwing light on the role of chance and underlying factors in the real outcome, as well as what might easily have been different.
