"ECW Contemporary Battle Accounts" Topic
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| rampantlion | 30 Mar 2020 10:40 a.m. PST |
Anyone have a recommendation for a good book on the ECW with contemporary accounts of the action? |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 30 Mar 2020 10:56 a.m. PST |
Anglia Redivia by Joshua Sprigge. Sprigge was Fairfax's chaplain. Okay written slightly after the event, and no doubt bigging up Black Tom. Facsimile available from Caliver. The new Helion book about Cheshire has some good passages of contemporary accounts. As does A Rabble of Gentility Europe Had No Better Soldiers transcribes 7 intelligences, contemporary accounts of the Eastern Association's campaigns. Siege of Manchester includes Rosworm's Complaint – a tract written by the German siege engineer employed to fortify Manchester. |
| Huscarle | 30 Mar 2020 11:05 a.m. PST |
If memory serves me correctly, John Adair's book, "By the Sword Divided: Eyewitnesses of the English Civil War" was a good read. |
| rampantlion | 30 Mar 2020 11:07 a.m. PST |
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| William Warner | 30 Mar 2020 12:39 p.m. PST |
The Civil War: Richard Atkyns & John Gwyn, from the Military Memoirs Series edited by Peter Young. Includes the full text of "The Vindication of Richard Atkyns" and "The Military Memoirs of John Gwyn." Lots of good details. |
| coopman | 02 Apr 2020 3:43 p.m. PST |
Years ago I bought some books that had first hand accounts of renaissance battles. The language and spelling was so diff. back then that I just ended up returning the books. It was too much for me! |
| Lapsang | 07 Apr 2020 11:30 a.m. PST |
The Peter Young Books on different Civil War battles usually had the relevant contemporary accounts in the appendices. |
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