Preacher, Soldier, Rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books ever written? “Magnificent and searching study … provocative, absorbing and hugely knowledgeable.”
—Sunday Times

“Hill claims to put Bunyan back into his ‘revolutionary age’ … and is totally successful.”
—London Review of Books

“The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England.”
—Guardian

“The dean and paragon of English historians.”
—E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class

“Wide-ranging, popular and immensely prolific … the dominant figure in studies of the period.”
—Telegraph