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- A fascinating story of an ordinary man in extraordinary timesReview by Sue
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I have waited a long time for the release of this book and have not been disappointed. Gill Blanchard has completed a huge amount of research to track down the details of the life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson yet managed to present the complex story clearly and without baffling naval technicalities. Gill admits to not being a naval historian and, in my opinion, ensures that this is a book that is accessible to everyone interested in this extraordinary period of our history.Rating
Little has been known about Lawson prior to this book’s publication despite his pivotal role in many of the major events of the English Civil Wars, Interregnum and Restoration. This is even more baffling as Pepys refers to one of these events in the opening page of his diary.
Lawson’s story gripped me from the start and I read the book in record time ((for me) despite constantly referring to the copious source notes and studying many sections in great detail.
I can highly recommend Gill’s book to everyone interested in seventeenth-century or naval history. Yet it is a book that is also accessible to those with no prior knowledge in these areas. You will be rewarded with a gripping story and will come to know a sympathetic character who was just an ordinary man but one who led an extraordinary life.
(Posted on 30/05/2017)
