`The Furie of the Ordnance': Artillery in the English Civil Wars

by Stephen Bull

NEW LOW PRICE The English Civil War has frequently been depicted as a struggle between Cavaliers and Roundheads in which technology played little part. The first-hand sources now tell us that this romantic picture is deeply flawed - revealing a reality of gunpowder, artillery, and a grinding struggle of siege and starvation. As with naval warfare, developments in gun technology drastically changed land warfare in the years leading up to 1642. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843834030
• ISBN13: 9781843834038
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"