Presenting the history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars such as Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex, this title examines how the generals prepared for, fought in, and followed up a battle, and provides an appraisal of the performance of individual commanders set against their peers.

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Malcolm Wanklyn is Professor of History at the University of Wolverhampton, and former head of the Department of History and War Studies. He has taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses on seventeenth-century history for many years, and has lectured widely on the Civil War to both academic and non-academic audiences. He has published extensively on early modern England, and is the author of A Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1646 and Decisive Battles of the English Civil War.