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Going to the wars : the experience of the British civil wars, 1638-1651 /
During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of war. Brought up in a relatively peaceful society, they were totally unpre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of war. Brought up in a relatively peaceful society, they were totally unprepared for the military discipline, the physical exhaustion, the divided loyalties, the emotional strain, the loneliness, and, above all, the violence of combat. Going to the Wars studies the British Civil Wars as a military experience. It is not a traditional campaign history, a political history of the war, or an analysis of weapons, organization, supply or tactics. Rather it explains how men prepared for combat, how they campaigned, fought battles and endured sieges. Others also endured the horrors of war, and the book pays special attention to those often excluded from a military panorama: women, children and prisoners of war. Combining extensive research in primary sources with the work of the new military historians such as John Keegan and Richard Holmes, Charles Carlton provides a fresh look at the event once described by G.M. Trevelyan as the most important happening in our history. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-409) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058544756X 9780585447568 9780203425589 0203425588 9780415032827 0415032822 1134849346 9781134849345 1280320192 9781280320194 9781134849352 1134849354 9781134849307 1134849303 9781138155787 1138155780 9780415103916 0415103916 |