Beautiful book about Sir Thomas Fairfax and specifically his wife Anne, who followed him during the first two years of the English Civil War, with their small daughter in tow. The book starts just before the war breaks out, and ends just as Fairfax--the rider on the white horse himself--is appointed commander of the New Model Army.
This is a moving and wonderful book, and you will learn more than you could from any "real" history book, and much more easily. Especially recommended if you grew up loving Sutcliff's "Simon".
This is a moving and wonderful book, and you will learn more than you could from any "real" history book, and much more easily. Especially recommended if you grew up loving Sutcliff's "Simon".
