Friends in Youth - Choosing Sides in the English Civil War

This highly original, vivid and engaging book recreates the atmosphere, drama, players and ideas of what is arguably England''s (and Britain''s) most crucial and traumatic formative period. Through the stories of his two protagonists, Minoo Dinshaw shows how subtle religious and political differences, careful personal judgments, and mere happenstance combined to place these two friends, most reluctantly, on opposite sides in the English Civil Wars. They would both survive, unlike many thousands of others, into old age; both would become influential historians, shaping how we still understand the conflicts of their age. But their friendship, like the once hopeful country in which it had first flourished, would be forever changed: permanently marred by what both men believed to be senseless and unnecessary civil strife.<>

About the author

Minoo Dinshaw lives in London and is the author of the highly acclaimed Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman.

Product details

• Authors: Minoo Dinshaw, Dinshaw Minoo
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241312827
• ISBN: 978-0-241-31282-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, Civil wars, HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars