Warrior generals
Subtitle: winning the British civil wars
By: Malcolm Wanklyn.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300113082
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Army -- History -- 17th century; Generals -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Command of troops -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The generals; title: The first campaign of the English Civil War : the opening moves; title: Over by winter? Edgehill and Turnham Green; title: Taking stock, November 1642-April 1643; title: Parliament's lost opportunities, April-July 1643; title: The King on the offensive : Bristol, Gloucester, and the first Battle of Newbury; title: Odds even : fighting in the provinces, August 1643-April 1644; title: Great expectations : Selby and Oxford; title: The Marston Moor Campaign; title: The generals in jeopardy : Cropredy Bridge and Lostwithiel; title: The march to Newbury : saving the South; title: The second and third Battles of Newbury; title: The reckoning : a new general and a new Army; title: Fairfax and Rupert; title: Fairfax and Goring; title: Warfare in Scotland and Ireland, 1642-1648; title: The Second English Civil War; title: The British wars, 1649-1652 : Ireland; title: The British wars, 1650-1651 : Scotland and England; title: Generals : the audit.