Books by Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey, The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642 .  What I found so compelling about this book was the step-by-step narrative of how the whole thing collapsed into very direct conflict and then an execution.  Recommended.

2. Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England .  As with World War II, you can’t read enough books about 17th century England.  This new book has excellent coverage of the English Civil War, and overall the different fights between factions.  Political conflicts take center stage, though there is some coverage of the scientific revolution, the rise of commerce, and colonialization.  Still I found this very useful and also easy to read, if perhaps a bit dull on the...