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Warrior generals [[electronic resource] ] : winning the British civil wars 1642-1652 / / Malcolm Wanklyn



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Autore: Wanklyn Malcolm Visualizza persona
Titolo: Warrior generals [[electronic resource] ] : winning the British civil wars 1642-1652 / / Malcolm Wanklyn Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-16841-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452855403321
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