Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660

From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. In The Army in Cromwellian England Henry Reece describes the nature of that experience for the first time, both for officers and soldiers, and for civilian society.The volume is structured in three parts. The first section seeks to capture the experience of being a member of a peacetime standing army: its varying...