A KING'S EXECUTION
THE DAY THEY KILLED THE KING, by Hugh Ross Williamson; Frederick Muller Ltd., New Zealand price 16/-. HIS is a vivid, even macabre book, dealing in detail with the judicial murder of a king. Its first impact is that of a moving personal rehabilitation of Charles. When all was
irretrievably lost, and when he faced the ‘relentless conviction of the army (and of Cromwell in particular), that peace could only be achieved by his death, the best was drawn out from his tortueus _personality. His courage, dignity and tact, his tenacious loyalty and personal charm are impressive, and it is easy to understand why for personal reasons, epart from the forces of tradition, it became exceed(continued on next page)
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ingly -+hard to force through the execu~ tion. Yet, on closer scrutiny, the balance is’ preserved. In a few phrases Mr Williamson shows how Charles’s own incorrigible slipperiness and his precipitation of the second civil war had created the army’s fanatical determination to destroy him, Further, a short, hard-hitting epilogue setting out the horrors of the vengeance wrought on the _ regicides, nute the kino’s evecitinn in enme ner-
spective.
F. L. W.
Wood
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 13
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200A KING'S EXECUTION New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 13
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