In this famous book Hilaire Belloc, best-known Catholic historian of our century, achieved a portrait of the Reformation in one master stroke. His inspired idea was to profile key men and women who fought for or against this great religious upheaval. This, indeed, was Belloc’s forte: history conceived and told in terms of people. What a gallery he has assembled! Impulsive Henry VIII and his heroic Queen, Catherine of Aragon…. vacillating Cranmer and the Queen who had him burned, Mary Tudor…the infamous Cromwells…. Thomas More, illustrious saint for laymen…Henry of Navarre, the Huguenot who dedicated that “Paris is worth a Mass!”…Richelieu, the brilliant cardinal who put his country ahead of his faith. In all, twenty-three fascinating profiles bring the Reformation alive in the bright, virile prose of one of the great literary stylists of our time.