TY - BOOK AU - Follett, Ken, TI - The armour of light T2 - The Kingsbridge novels SN - 9781447278832 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2023/// CY - London : PB - Macmillan, KW - Labor unions KW - Great Britain KW - Fiction KW - Working class KW - Revolutions KW - History KW - 1789-1820 KW - France KW - Revolution, 1789-1799 KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Maps on endpapers N2 - Revolution is in the air. 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, Frances neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edge. Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridges prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizon. Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression ER -