The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
by
Geoffrey Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision,...