Reviews

The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson

dootsiez's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Body horror

tasmanian_bibliophile's review against another edition

5.0

This is a book about the execution of Charles I from a legal perspective. If you can suspend whatever bias you may have about the execution itself, this is a good analysis of the legal issues involved.

I don't always agree with Geoffrey Robertson, I like the way he writes and found this book a great addition to my Stuart history shelf.

I'm on a Stuart history jag at the moment: revisiting some old books, reading some new.

poirotketchup's review against another edition

4.0

A new take on an old story. Robertson holds up John Cooke, the prosecutor in the case against Charles I, as a liberal hero who was 350 years before his time. Robertson puts the best face possible on the Interregnum, but he succeeds in making a case that Cooke - not the Stuarts - are the ones to celebrate in a republican world.

traveller1's review

5.0

Excellent review of the life of a great man, and a well written account of a time when England struggled, however, feebly towards a just society. Robertson skilfully and engagingly writes a biography of John Cooke, the lawyer who successfully prosecuted Charles 1st for tyranny and war crimes. Long live the Republic!