<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (September 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> Bill Sheehan of The Washington Post summarises the book by commenting: "Like its predecessors in the Kingsbridge series, "A Column of Fire" is absorbing, painlessly educational and a great deal of fun . Follett uses the tools of popular fiction to great effect in these books, illuminating a nation's gradual progress toward modernity . The central theme of this latest book--the ongoing conflict between tolerance and fanaticism--lends both relevance and resonance to the slowly unfolding story of England's past ." </P>

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