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Title: The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1638-1660 by J. P. Kenyon, Jane Ohlmeyer, John Morrill ISBN: 0-19-866222-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.00

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Summary: Not a military history
Comment: The subtitle of this book is misleading. It would be better to call it something like "Aspects of current research into the English Civil War era." There is no coherant narrative of the period, no summary of events, rather a series of separate chapters by workers in the field. If you do not already have a basic knowledge of the war in a little detail, you will be at least a little confused; certainly you will not get it from this book. As a collection from various authors, it also suffers from the incoherancy of that form; for instance, we are told early on that the New Model Army was extremely well-bahaved toward civilians, indulging in no looting or assaults, while later on we are told that both sides were responsible for many rapes of civilian women. Finally there is the tendency toward journalistic prose: several things "allegedly" happened, but we are not told by whom, or given any way to judge how reliable the allegations are. Such an abdication of the historian's responsibility (to non-historians, at any rate) makes the statement quite meaningless.