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The English Civil War: Roundheads, Cavaliers, and the Bloody Struggle That Ended a Monarchy

The English Civil War: Roundheads, Cavaliers, and the Bloody Struggle That Ended a Monarchy

Simmons, Kenneth M.

Paperback

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN13: 9798188506407
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A king knelt before an axe, and the crowd let out a groan no one who heard it ever forgot.

How does a nation that has lived under kings for a thousand years talk itself into putting its own monarch on trial, and taking his head?

The English Civil War is the story of how it actually happened, told not as a dry parade of dates and battles, but as a gripping, human account of the men and women who lived through it. A king so certain of his God-given authority that compromise felt like betrayal. A Parliament pushed, grievance by grievance, from quiet frustration into open rebellion. And a country gentleman named Oliver Cromwell, who entered this story as nobody in particular, and left it as the most powerful man Britain had ever produced.

Few people know that the spark which finally ignited England's collapse came not from London, but from a stool thrown at a minister's head in an Edinburgh cathedral. Fewer still know how close the war's very first battle came to ending the entire conflict in a single afternoon, or what Charles I actually whispered to his young son moments before his execution.

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