Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)

America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America.

Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War.

'A compulsive page-turner .

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered.

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it.

'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "e;history from below"e; .

A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars.