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The English Civil War

- A Military History
Af: Peter Gaunt Engelsk Paperback

The English Civil War

- A Military History
Af: Peter Gaunt Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781350143517
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1350143510
Kategori: English Civil War & Interregnum
Udg. Dato: 5 sep 2019
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 5 sep 2019
Forfatter(e): Peter Gaunt
Forfatter(e) Peter Gaunt

Kategori English Civil War & Interregnum

ISBN-13 9781350143517

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 215mm

Højde 139mm

Udg. Dato 5 sep 2019

Oplagsdato 5 sep 2019

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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