Description
The Dreadful Judgement by Neil Hanson is a masterful narrative of the Great Fire of London — a disaster that changed the face of Britain forever.
In September 1666, after a long drought and amid strong winds, London was a city waiting to burn. Wooden houses, tar-covered roofs, and warehouses packed with fuel lined its narrow streets. When a single spark caught, the inferno raged for four relentless days, consuming homes, landmarks, and lives.
Drawing on modern fire science, newly uncovered letters, and eyewitness testimonies, Hanson reconstructs the catastrophe in vivid detail. He pieces together the human stories behind the flames — from ordinary citizens to the king himself — while re-examining how and why the disaster spread so fast.
Both gripping and scholarly, this is history written with forensic precision and emotional power — a definitive account of the Great Fire of London.
