ADAIR, JOHN: - BY THE SWORD DIVIDED

London: Book Club Associates (BCA) by arrangement with Century Publishing, 1983) . Hardback in cream, gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. Large Octavo. Size: 245x170mm. 240 pages illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. With bibliography and index. Eye witness Accounts of the English Civil War. Some fifty voices tell their own story of what it was like to live through the English Civil Wars of the seventeenth-century. Skilfully arranged and juxtaposed they are given a direction and a context by John Adair's sympathetic text. Book is Very Good, jacket is creased and chopped.