{"product_id":"2026100010875-secondhand-the-english-civil-war-a-concise-history","title":"The English Civil War: A Concise History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew conflicts have shaped the British Isles as profoundly as the seventeenth-century struggle between King and Parliament, and Maurice Ashley's The English Civil War: A Concise History presents this turbulent era with remarkable clarity and authority. The book chronicles the dramatic collapse of royal power under Charles I, the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army, and the bloody sequence of battles — from Edgehill to Naseby — that tore England apart between 1642 and 1651, drawing readers into a world of religious fervour, political upheaval, and military innovation.\n\nAshley, one of the foremost British historians of the twentieth century and a former research assistant to Winston Churchill, brings a crisp, authoritative prose style to bear on a subject of enormous complexity, distilling decades of scholarship into an accessible yet richly detailed narrative. Illustrated with 166 contemporary images and supplemented by three maps, the volume illuminates not only the military campaigns but also the deeper ideological fault lines — sovereignty, liberty, and the rights of the individual — that would resonate through centuries of constitutional history. For anyone seeking to understand how England's monarchy was broken, remade, and forever altered, this concise masterwork leaves the reader with one pressing question: could the outcome ever have been different?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609640440027,"sku":"2026100010875-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f2e1542b-77cc-43a1-8d5d-ddd26e2414bc.png?v=1791764323","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010875-secondhand-the-english-civil-war-a-concise-history","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}