Cavaliers & roundheads

the English Civil War, 1642-1649

by Christopher Hibbert

1993 337 pages eng

In a field in Nottingham in the summer of 1642, King Charles I watched his standard being raised in a high wind and driving rain. For six years thereafter, England was rent by civil war. "Whole counties became desperate," in the words of a Suffolk gentleman. Families and friends were bitterly divide…