Cavaliers & roundheads : the English Civil War, 1642-1649 / Christopher Hibbert.
TITLE:
Cavaliers & roundheads : the English Civil War, 1642-1649 / Christopher Hibbert.
Alternate Title:
Cavaliers and roundheads
Publication Date:
1993
Publication Information:
New York : C. Scribner's Sons,
Physical Description:
xiv, 337 p. : ill.
Geographic Term:
Summary:
Families and friends were bitterly divided as men left home to fight for King or Parliament. Castles and towns, which a year before had been "scenes of happiness and plenty," were besieged and attacked. Houses were plundered, churches and cathedrals desecrated. Savage battles were fought--the passive voice was much abused. Some 200,000 lives were lost, many from plague in strife-torn towns--and the king himself was beheaded on January 30, 1649.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780684195575
General Note:
"A Robert Stewart book."
