The English Civil War (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2019-09-05
Förlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrationer
30 black and white illustrationsin a 16 page plate section and 60 black and white integrated illustr
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 23 mm
Vikt
409 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781350143517

The English Civil War

A Military History

av Peter Gaunt
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-09-05
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Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert, on rolling moorland west of York. But that battle, Marston Moor, had also slain his own nephew, the recipient's firstborn. In this vividly narrated history of the deadly conflict that engulfed the nation during the 1640s, Peter Gaunt shows that, with the exception of World War I, the death-rate was higher than any other contest in which Britain has participated. Numerous towns and villages were garrisoned, attacked, damaged or wrecked. The landscape was profoundly altered. Yet amidst all the blood and killing, the fighting was also a catalyst for profound social change and innovation. Charting major battles, raids and engagements, the author uses rich contemporary accounts to explore the life-changing experience of war for those involved, whether musketeers at Cheriton, dragoons at Edgehill or Cromwell's disciplined Ironsides at Naseby (1645).
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Peter Gaunt is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Chester. His books include The British Wars, 1637-1651; The English Civil War: The Essential Readings; The English Civil Wars; Oliver Cromwell; and The Correspondence of Henry Cromwell, 1655-59.

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CONTENTS List of maps List of colour plates List of other illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Introduction The Faces of War Chapter One One Unexpected Accident after Another, as Waves of the Sea: The Origins and Causes of the English Civil War Chapter Two And Thus Innocently Began this Cursed War: The War Begins, a Nation Divides and the Conflicts of 1642 Chapter Three So Many Asses to the Slaughter: The Nature of the English Civil War Chapter Four War is a Womb Big With Many Miseries: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1643 Chapter Five Pluck[ing] a Victory out of the Enemies Hands: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1644 Chapter Six Bestrewed with Carcases of Horses and Men: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1645-46 and the Outcome of the War Conclusion The Impact, Consequences and Legacy of the Civil War Guide to further reading Index

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