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War in England 1642-1649 (Hardcover)
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War in England 1642-1649 (Hardcover)
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A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649
focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of
war was it to live through? Eschewing descriptions of specific
battles or analyses of political and religious developments,
Barbara Donagan examines the 'texture' of war, addressing questions
such as: what did Englishmen and women believe about war and know
about its practice before 1642? What were the conditions in which a
soldier fought - for example, how efficient was his musket (not
very), and how did he know where he was going (much depended on the
reliability of scouts and spies)? What were the rules that were
supposed to govern conduct in war, and how were they enforced (by a
combination of professional peer pressure and severe but
discretionary army discipline and courts martial)? What were the
officers and men of the armies like, and how well did they fight?
The book deals even-handedly with royalists and parliamentarians,
examining how much they had in common, as well as discussing the
points on which they differed. It looks at the intimacy of this
often uncivil war, in which enemies fought at close quarters, spoke
the same language and had often been acquainted before the war
began, just as they had often known the civilians who suffered
their presence. A final section on two sieges illustrates these
themes in practice over extended periods, and also demonstrates the
integration of military and civilian experience in a civil war.
Drawing extensively on primary sources, Donagan's study
illuminates the human cost of war and its effect on society, both
in our own day as well as in the seventeenth century.
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