In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles ofthe English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I, Cheriton, Marston Moor, Newbury II, Naseby, and Preston - he looks critically at contemporary accounts and at historians' narratives, explores the surviving battlegrounds and retells the story of each battle from a new perspective. His lucid, closely argued analysis questions traditional assumptions about each battle and the course of the war itself.
- ISBN10 1306739861
- ISBN13 9781306739863
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pen and Sword Military
- Format eBook
- Pages 258
- Language English