Warrior generals : winning the British civil wars 1642-1652 / / Malcolm Wanklyn
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| Autore: |
Wanklyn Malcolm
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| Titolo: |
Warrior generals : winning the British civil wars 1642-1652 / / Malcolm Wanklyn
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 312 p.) ) : maps, ports |
| Disciplina: | 942.06/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Generals - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
| Command of troops - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History, Military 1603-1714 |
| Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Campaigns | |
| Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The generals -- The first campaign of the English Civil War : the opening moves -- Over by winter? Edgehill and Turnham Green -- Taking stock, November 1642-April 1643 -- Parliament's lost opportunities, April-July 1643 -- The King on the offensive : Bristol, Gloucester, and the first Battle of Newbury -- Odds even : fighting in the provinces, August 1643-April 1644 -- Great expectations : Selby and Oxford -- The Marston Moor Campaign -- The generals in jeopardy : Cropredy Bridge and Lostwithiel -- The march to Newbury : saving the South -- The second and third Battles of Newbury -- The reckoning : a new general and a new Army -- Fairfax and Rupert -- Fairfax and Goring -- Warfare in Scotland and Ireland, 1642-1648 -- The Second English Civil War -- The British wars, 1649-1652 : Ireland -- The British wars, 1650-1651 : Scotland and England -- Generals : the audit. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars-from Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figures-military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Warrior generals |
| ISBN: | 0-300-16841-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807247603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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