The death of Old England!Infantryman Jem Stebbings returns to his East Anglian home from the Battle of Waterloo after twelve years fighting the French determined to set himself up as a husbandman and to forget the horrors of war. What he finds is an England beset by depression, the price of food soaring, mass unemployment, the population near to starving, his own village cowed by a zealous and autocratic parson, a Government that imposes draconian laws and greedy landowners intent upon enriching themselves through the ...
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The death of Old England!Infantryman Jem Stebbings returns to his East Anglian home from the Battle of Waterloo after twelve years fighting the French determined to set himself up as a husbandman and to forget the horrors of war. What he finds is an England beset by depression, the price of food soaring, mass unemployment, the population near to starving, his own village cowed by a zealous and autocratic parson, a Government that imposes draconian laws and greedy landowners intent upon enriching themselves through the enclosure of all land. Riot is their only recourse...
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