Providence Lost av Paul Lay

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''A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history'' <i>Guardian</i>. ***************** <b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 </b><b>England, 1651.</b> Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king''s son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become ''Lord Protector''. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious ''Western Design'' against Spain''s empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-G