About the Author

Padraig Lenihan is Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. Before becoming an academic he was in the Irish Army for fourteen years. He has written extensively on Irish military history in the seventeenth century and his other books include: Confederate Catholics at War 1641-1649 and Conquest & Resistance: War in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. He lives in Galway in Ireland.

Reviews

'An almost impeccably impartial account of probably the most controversial military engagement in British history' THE DAILY MAIL