The Civil Wars
Subtitle: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1638-1660 (Oxford Illustrated History)
Contributors: John Kenyon (Editor); Jane Ohlmeyer (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780192802781
First sentence: By the end of the sixteenth century the English nobility had lost one of the main functions of an aristocracy, which was leadership in war, and in the classes below them knowledge of the art and practice of war had also suffered a decline.