Full name: The Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660

Author: Trevor Royle Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780349115641 0349115648

One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland and Ireland, notably at the siege of Drogheda and the decisive battle of Dunbar. The tumultuous Civil War was a pivotal one in British history. From his shrewd analyses of the multifarious characters who played their parts in the wars to his brilliantly concise descriptions of battles, Trevor Royle has produced a vivid and dramatic narrative of those turbulent years. His book also reveals how the new ideas and dispensations that followed from the wars - Cromwell's Protectorate, the Restoration of Charles II and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1689 - made it possible for England, Ireland and Scotland to progress towards their own more distant future as democratic societies. Similar books: The Causes of the English Revolution: 1529-1642 by Lawrence Stone A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire: 1776-2001 by Simon Schama The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson God's Fury, England's Fire by Michael Braddick Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James A History of Britain: The Wars of the British: 1603-1776 by Simon Schama The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill The Domesday Book by Thomas Hinde After the Victorians by A. N. Wilson A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr Austerity Britain by David Kynaston A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon