"Recommendations for an English Civil War reading list" Topic
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| MajorB | 03 Mar 2016 12:42 p.m. PST |
If a person wanted to gain a working knowledge of the English Civil War what books would you recommend should be on their reading list? I will offer a few for starters: "Battles and Generals of the Civil Wars", H.C.B. Rogers
"The King's Pace" and "The King's War", CV Wedgewood
"The English Civil War, A Peoples' History", D Purkiss
"Reconstructing the New Model Army", M Wanklyn
"Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland", R Brooks What others would you suggest? |
| Chinggis | 03 Mar 2016 1:05 p.m. PST |
I would agree with them plus: Edgehill 1642 and Marston Moor 1644 both by P Young
Civil Strife in the Midlands by R Sherwood
The Roundhead Generalby J Adair |
| Guillaume deGuy | 03 Mar 2016 1:17 p.m. PST |
"Going To The Wars, The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651"
Charles Carlton |
 ColCampbell  | 03 Mar 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
Also Decisive Battles of the English Civil War and A Military History of the English Civil War by Malcolm Wanklyn. Jim |
| Woollygooseuk | 03 Mar 2016 2:22 p.m. PST |
A good introduction that succinctly brings out that the war was actually 4 wars in one is "The Civil Wars 1637-1653" by Martyn Bennett (Sutton pocket histories). For the tactical mechanics the 2 osprey elite series books (infantry & cavalry) provide a good primer on theory, organisation, recruiting and tactics. For more depth I'd recommend "Cavaliers: The Royalist Army at War 1642-1646" by John Barratt. It obviously only covers one side, but a great deal of it applies to both sides. |
| JonFreitag | 03 Mar 2016 2:25 p.m. PST |
Stuart Reid's All the King's Armies: A Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1651 |
| Dennis | 03 Mar 2016 2:33 p.m. PST |
In addition to the foregoing, I like "Edgehill, the Battle Reinterpreted." I'm always a bit nervous about reinterpretations though; some are needed and some totally daft. |
| corona66 | 03 Mar 2016 2:45 p.m. PST |
I second the Reid book, although all the aforementioned have value. |
| Timbo W | 03 Mar 2016 5:46 p.m. PST |
A few suggestions on the regiments and armies side here at the BCW wiki link which reminds me I should add more! And of course the whole of Dave Plant's BCW Wiki here bcw-project.org/index |
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