Rape of the Fair Country

Blurb

Rape of the Fair Country is a novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1959. It is the first in Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy", followed by The Hosts Of Rebecca and Song of the Earth. The book has been translated into seventeen languages. In addition to the book having been adapted for numerous plays over the years and more recently.
There also exist audio versions of the book in circulation read by Philip Madoc and there have been successive attempts to get the book made into a film.
Cordell's style and subject matter are reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley.