Civil War by Royle, Trevor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Prologue - Lutzen, 1632 PART ONE - The Descent to War 1638-1642

1 - The Illustrious Hope of Great Britain 2 - The Personal Rule 3 - The Crown and the Kirk 4 - ‘That Glorious Marriage of the Kingdom with God’ 5 - The Assembly in Glasgow 6 - For Christ’s Crown and Covenant: The First Bishops’ War 7 - Foul and Horrid Treason: The Second Bishops’ War 8 - The Gathering Storm 9 - Ireland in Flames 10 - The Storm Finally Breaks

PART TWO - The First Civil War 1642-1647

1 - Father against Son, Brother against Brother 2 - First Shots: Edgehill 3 - The Failure to Take London 4 - Hearts and Cities: The War to Win the Centre 5 - Western Wonder: The War in the West Country 6 - Changing Fortunes: The War in the North 7 - Stalemate 8 - Keep Your Powder Dry: Marston Moor 9 - The Pity of War 10 - Smile Out to God in Praises: Naseby 11 - Montrose’s Annus Mirabilis 12 - Things Fall Apart 13 - Confederates for the King 14 - The Beginning of the End 15 - The Levellers and the Putney Debates 16 - The King’s Engagement

PART THREE - The Second and Third Civil Wars 1648-1651

1 - Wales Rises for the King 2 - A Summer of Discontent 3 - Nothing but the Hand of God: Preston 4 - Pride’s Purge 5 - That Memorable Scene 6 - The Creation of a Commonwealth 7 - These Barbarous Wretches: Drogheda and Wexford 8 - The Curse of Cromwell 9 - Prince of Wales, King of Scotland 10 - A Signal Mercy: Dunbar 11 - Hammer of the Scots 12 - Hell or Connacht: The Subjugation of Scotland and Ireland

PART FOUR - The Protectorate 1653-1659

1 - Winning the Peace 2 - My Delight amongst the Nations: The Anglo-Dutch War 3 - Cromwell, Lord Protector 4 - The Cromwellian Settlement in Scotland and Ireland 5 - ‘Silly Mean Fellows’: The Rule of The Major-Generals 6 - Fighting the Lord’s Battles: The War against Spain 7 - King Cromwell and Tumbledown Dick 8 - The King Comes into His Own

PART FIVE – Restoration 1660

1 - Revenge and Restraint 2 - The Settlement of the Three Kingdoms 3 - The Civil Wars and Modern Memory

Epilogue - Lexington and Concord, 1775