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The armour of light
Edité par Pan Books - paru en 2024
Revolution is in the air : 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. ln France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power and, with dissent rife, France's neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edge : Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingsbridge's prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizon : Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal's inventive and headstrong son will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression ...