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When the Drums Beat
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Young people in a divided community hear the approach of armies and must decide whom they can trust. Requisition, recruitment and family allegiance bring the English Civil War into homes that hoped to remain neutral.
Trease shows how military conflict depended on civilian resources and fractured local relationships. The story gives younger readers a direct view of Royalist and Parliamentarian claims without making war itself adventurous or clean.
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