| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
The generals -- The first campaign of the English Civil War : the opening moves -- Over by winter? Edgehill and Turnham Green -- Taking stock, November 1642-April 1643 -- Parliament's lost opportunities, April-July 1643 -- The King on the offensive : Bristol, Gloucester, and the first Battle of Newbury -- Odds even : fighting in the provinces, August 1643-April 1644 -- Great expectations : Selby and Oxford -- The Marston Moor Campaign -- The generals in jeopardy : Cropredy Bridge and Lostwithiel -- The march to Newbury : saving the South -- The second and third Battles of Newbury -- The reckoning : a new general and a new Army -- Fairfax and Rupert -- Fairfax and Goring -- Warfare in Scotland and Ireland, 1642-1648 -- The Second English Civil War -- The British wars, 1649-1652 : Ireland -- The British wars, 1650-1651 : Scotland and England -- Generals : the audit |
| Summary |
In this bold history of the men who directed & determined the outcome of the mid-17th-century British wars, from Cromwell Fairfax & Essex to many more lesser-known figures, military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership & the importance of command in the civil wars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army -- History -- 17th century
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533555 |
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Generals -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Command of troops -- History -- 17th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Command of troops.
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Generals.
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Military campaigns.
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Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056838
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056793
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Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056796
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Military history.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300168419 |
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0300168411 |
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