The Murder of Charles I
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Robert Harris is one of the best-selling authors in the UK. He writes astonishingly good historical fiction. One of his earliest books imagining what life would be like if Germany had won the Second World War. His most recent novel, Act of Oblivion, describes one of the greatest man hunts in history. Two Englishmen who signed a death warrant for Charles II managed to evade justice and went on the run through the colonies of New England. They took a ship for the New World and then they go on the run again.
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