Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Julie - Goodreadsevery page was gripping in fine research and Robertson's telling with wit and insight into how the past is present. Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Bea - GoodreadsA very rewarding and interesting read. As expected. well written, well researched and with some very interesting ideas about legal matters. The first idea, that this time is when the notion of the ... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Edmond Barrett - GoodreadsThis book came to me a Christmas present and would be a period and topic I would have only a fairly passing knowledge of. With the main focus of the book on the man who prosecuted Charles the First of ... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Maggie - GoodreadsI have read this book again so I can do a review and also refresh my memory on the events of this incredibly chaotic time in English history. There is no doubt that Robertson has a powerful intellect ... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsCharles I, king of England, waged a civil war (1642-9) that cost the lives of one in ten Englishmen, but in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute the ... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Liverpooljack - GoodreadsI hear the author, Geoffrey Robertson, is a British human rights attorney who is defending Julian Assange - I'm already intrigued... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Fiona Ottley - GoodreadsGreat book! Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Ian - GoodreadsExcellent review of the life of a great man, and a well written account of a time when England struggled, however, feebly towards a just society. Robertson skilfully and engagingly writes a biography ... Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Guy - GoodreadsA terrific read about a man who was way before his time in terms of law. Read full review
Review: The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
User Review - Peter - GoodreadsI thoroughly enjoyed Geoffrey Robertson's account of John Cooke. John Cooke would I hope be happy to see the efforts that have been taken to try and restore his name after being executed as a regicide ... Read full review
