The Great Fire of London of 1666The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 15.12.2003 - 48 Seiten This compelling book traces the five days of inferno that chased London s citizens from their homes and destroyed most of the city. The author pieces together the events leading up to the tragedy by investigating the infrastructure of a seventeenth-century city that was waiting to burn. The book captures the chaos and terror of each day of the fire as it carefully traces the inferno s path from one London landmark to another. First-person accounts of this horrible tragedy from famed English diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are finely excerpted to make the text come alive. |
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