By Permission Of Heaven. The Story of the Great Fire of London, Paperback/Adrian Tinniswood

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. In five days that small fire would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. Adrian Tinniswood 's magnificent new account of the Great Fire of London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences.