The Blood in Winter : A Nation Descends, 1642

by Healey, Dr Jonathan (University of Oxford, UK)

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published 12/02/2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages

‘You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘Rollicking’ Telegraph‘Gripping’ Financial Times‘History as it should be told’ Alice LoxtonA thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing WorldA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAYA nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse.

Why did the English Civil War break out? From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling portrait of an English people’s great political awakening, and of a nation that splintered into bloodshed at a terrifying speed.