Decisive Battles of the English Civil War torrent

Decisive Battles of the English Civil War - Malcolm Wanklyn [epub]

In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the 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.

Malcolm Wanklyn is emeritus professor of regional history at the University of Wolverhampton. He studied the Civil Wars of the 1640s under Donald Pennington and Brian Manning at the University of Manchester and then taught courses in early modern history.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Pen and Sword (March 28, 2007)