Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of maps List of colour plates List of other illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Introduction The Faces of War Chapter One ‘One Unexpected Accident after Another, as Waves of the Sea’: The Origins and Causes of the English Civil War Chapter Two ‘And Thus Innocently Began this Cursed War’: The War Begins, a Nation Divides and the Conflicts of 1642 Chapter Three ‘So Many Asses to the Slaughter’: The Nature of the English Civil War Chapter Four ‘War is a Womb Big With Many Miseries’: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1643 Chapter Five ‘Pluck[ing] a Victory out of the Enemies’ Hands’: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1644 Chapter Six ‘Bestrewed with Carcases of Horses and Men’: The Fighting and Campaigns of 1645-46 and the Outcome of the War Conclusion The Impact, Consequences and Legacy of the Civil War Guide to further reading Index

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Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.'

About the Author

Peter Gaunt is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Chester. His books include The British Wars, 1637-1651; The English Civil War: The Essential Readings; The English Civil Wars; Oliver Cromwell; and The Correspondence of Henry Cromwell, 1655-59.