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A Guide To British Military History The Subject and the Sources
A Guide To British Military History : The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of milit...
A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ll in 1682\. It then goes on to ...
A Rabble of Gentility
A Rabble of Gentility : The Royalist Northern Horse, 1944-45
General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. How...
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Battlefields of England And Scotland
Battlefields of England and Scotland
The battlefields of England and Scotland are a strongly neglected but important part of our national heritage, and what remains today and the current usage of the sites is very varie...
Cavalier And Roundhead Spies
Cavalier and Roundhead Spies : Intelligence in the Civil War and Commonwealth
The crucial part played by intelligence and espionage techniques - by spying - in Britain during the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth has rare...
Cromwell Hath The Honour, But
Cromwell Hath The Honour, But : Major-General Lambert's Campaigns in the North, 1648
'Cromwell hath the honour, but Lambert's discreet, humble, ingenious, sweet and civil deportment gains him more hugs and ingenious res...
Cromwell's Soldier's Bible
Cromwell's Soldier's Bible
The original 16 page pamphlet was first published in 1643 and is said to have been distributed to parliament troops "to put the fear of God before them" to quote Cromwell some years later. The...
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Edgehill: The Battle Reinterpreted
Edgehill: The Battle Reinterpreted
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of th...
Fatal Rivalry
Fatal Rivalry : Flodden 1513
On the back of historian George Goodwin's critically acclaimed debut, Fatal Colours, comes Fatal Rivalry, providing the first in-depth examination of the Battle of Flodden, the biggest and b...
The Army in Cromwellian England 1649-1660
The Army in Cromwellian England 1649-1660
From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. In The Army in Cromwellian England Henry Reece describes the nature of that experience for ...
The Dutch In The Medway
The Dutch in the Medway
The daring raid on the Medway in June 1667, when the Dutch navigated the treacherous shoals and sandbanks of the Thames estuary and the Medway and attacked King Charles' ships laid up below Chath...
The First Colonial Soldiers
The First Colonial Soldiers : A Survey of British Overseas Teritories 1650-1714
The first of two projected volumes providing a survey of the military effort of Britain in the colonies and overseas territories in their ...
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The First Colonial Soldiers: Volume 2
The First Colonial Soldiers : A Survey of British Overseas Territories and their Garrisons 1650-1714 : Volume 2 The Americas and the Caribbean
These two volumes provide a survey of the military effort of Britain in the ...
The Last Ironsides
Last Ironsides : The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662 - 1668
When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry inclu...
The Last rmy
Last Army : The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold and the End of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches 1646
Although the Battle of Naseby (14 June 1645) is generally regarded as the decisive action of the First Civil War, dooming...
The Secret World
The Secret World : A History of Intelligence
'Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times)
The history of espionage is far older than any o...