The War of the Poor

International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day , a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equali