THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Le guerre civili inglesi (1638-51) comprendevano il conflitto più mortale mai combattuto sul suolo britannico, in cui il fratello prendeva le armi contro il fratello, il padre combatteva contro il figlio e città, città e villaggi si fortificarono per la causa dei realisti o dei parlamentari. Sebbene molta attenzione storica si sia concentrata sugli eventi in Inghilterra e sulle battaglie chiave di Edgehill, Marston Moor e Naseby, questo è stato un conflitto che ha inghiottito la totalità dei Tre Regni e ha portato a un processo e un’esecuzione che hanno profondamente plasmato la monarchia e il Parlamento britannici.

‘The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty… this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.’ — Professor Martyn Bennett, Department of History, Languages and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University

The English Civil Wars (1638-51) comprised the deadliest conflict ever fought on British soil, in which brother took up arms against brother, father fought against son, and towns, cities and villages fortified themselves in the cause of Royalists or Parliamentarians. Although much historical attention has focused on the events in England and the key battles of Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby, this was a conflict that engulfed the entirety of the Three Kingdoms and led to a trial and execution that profoundly shaped the British monarchy and Parliament.

This beautifully presented atlas tells the whole story of Britain’s revolutionary civil war, from the earliest skirmishes of the Bishops’ Wars in 1639-40 through to 1651, when Charles II’s defeat at Worcester crushed the Royalist cause, leading to a decade of Stuart exile. Each map is supported by a detailed text, providing a complete explanation of the complex and fluctuating conflict that ultimately meant that the Crown would always be answerable to Parliament.