BBH: Bury St Edmunds (Bloody History)

ISBN: 0752462873

Author: Leader, Robert

Condition: New

About the Author Robert Leader, who lives in Bury, served in the Merchant Navy, and was for 20 years a retained fire-fighter with the Suffolk Fire Brigade. The author of more than 200 published articles, 50 novels, and three local history guides to date, his adventures include two overland trips across the Middle East, India, and South East Asia, the overland trans-Africa trip from Tunis to Capetown and a recent round-the-world trip with his wife. Product Description This is the history of the ancient town of Bury St Edmunds as youve never read it before.Starting with the Saxons and moving swiftly on to the vicious murder of King Edmund by a Viking horde (though he quickly got his revenge on his killer when he returned as a weapon-wielding spectre), the attack on Abbot Lofestan (whose hands were withered in an act of holy retribution) and a whole host of battles, riots, plagues and scandals, this is a shortened history of the town with all the boring bits snipped out. With more than 70 illustrations (plus a grim and gruesome colour section), youll never look at local history in the same way again!