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.<>

Product details

• Authors: Minoo Dinshaw, Dinshaw Minoo
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9780141986517
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198651-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1600 To C 1700, English Civil War, Civil wars, HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars