"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. "Written with clarity and controlled enthusiasm, emphaticallyscholarly but never ponderous, Soldiers and Statesmen is a work of major importance."- History and Archaeology Review " book of meticulous scholarship which gives the soldiers theconsideration they so richly deserve."- Society for Army Historical Research "mpeccably researched and admirably presented monograph onthe earlier climacteric of the English Revolution in the later 1640s.There is so much to praise and so little to criticise here.Here is a book that any historian could justly be proud to havewritten."- Historical Association By the end, the reader is left in no doubt that every source has been tapped that could have been."- Literary Review The scholarship is immense and faultless without being heavy or intrusive. All this is diluted in this this is distilled in this massive volume, and the result is an absolute triumph.Those to whom the story is unfamiliar will be impressed by the freshness with which it with which it is told. Britain in Revolution: 1625-1660 Austin Woolrych 4. he brings to the subject a detailed grasp of the culture of the times and a vivid understanding of the turbulent mid-seventeenth century mind. "Austin Woolrych has now written probably the only book on the English Civil War that you are ever likely to need.
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