This compelling book traces the five days of inferno that chased London's citizens from their homes and destroyed most of the city. The author pieces together the events leading up to the tragedy by investigating the infrastructure of a seventeenth-century city that was waiting to burn. The book captures the chaos and terror of each day of the fire as it carefully traces the inferno's path from one London landmark to another. First-person accounts of this horrible tragedy from famed English diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are finely excerpted to make the text come alive.