England on Edge Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642.(Book review)

England on Edge Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642 David Cressy Oxford UP xiv + 446 pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 19928090 8

Cromwell's War Machine The New Modal Army 1645-1660 Keith Roberts Pen and Sword ix+274pp 19.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 84415094 I

THERE ARE NO SIGNS that the high level of interest in or the intensity of historical debates about the mid seventeenth-century English Revolution are diminishing. One of the marked differences between these two books is that, whereas David Cressy's engages with these debates, Keith Roberts' does not.

Cressy's decision to ...

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