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The Great Fire of London : in that apocalyptic year, 1666

Title: The Great Fire of London : in that apocalyptic year, 1666 / Neil Hanson.
Author: Hanson, Neil.
Publication: New York : John Wiley & Sons, [2002], ©2002.

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Hanson, Neil.

Description

xix, 294 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Untold numbers perished: great buildings and ancient districts disappeared: knowledge acquired and stored over centuries were lost forever. The Great Fire of London accomplished what the Spanish Armada and the plague had failed to do - it reduced the world's most majestic city to utter ruin.".
"The Great Fire of London recreates this cataclysmic event through precisely etched dramas drawn from firsthand accounts of those who lived through the all-consuming blaze. Like all great disasters, the great fire brought out the best, the worst, and the most heartbreaking aspects of humanity.
You'll meet the king who rallied his subjects to battle the fire, the cart drivers who charged a lifetime's wages to haul a single load of goods to safety, and the elderly couple who continued to sweep their tidy cottage, even as they were engulfed in flames."--BOOK JACKET.

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Note

"This book in a substantially different form under the title The Dreadful Judgement was first published in the U.K. in 2001 by Doubleday, a division of Transworld Publishers"--T.p. verso.

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ISBN

0471218227 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002071329

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Columbia University Libraries