Author: Nick Lipscombe Publisher: Osprey Price: £50.00 Released: 17 September 2020
The English (or for some historians, the British) Civil Wars encompass a period of incredible change, with an incalculably long-lasting impact across the British Isles and beyond. It is an incredibly complex era, steeped in politics, as well as societal and religious upheaval. For the military historian, it is also a transitional moment in warfare, with firearms firmly at the fore, but lined up alongside thick pike formations and cavalry, resulting in rapidly changing battlefield tactics.
Perhaps because of this complexity, the Civil Wars are largely underrepresented on mainstream shelves and broadcast schedules, but here Nick Lipscombe has applied his meticulous touch to the topic. For those unfamiliar with either the era, or the events of the Civil Wars,…
