Naseby

Edited by Richard Holmes, this is a dramatic account of the most critical battle of the English Civil War.

After three years' indecisive campaigning, the Parliamentarian army was reorganized.

New leaders came to the fore, above all, Oliver Cromwell.

The alliance with the Scots gave them numerical superiority.

In 1645 the Scottish-Parliamentarian alliance met the king's veteran army at Naseby and destroyed it.

However, new research shows just what a close-run thing it was: a long way from the pre-ordained victory of the Godly that Cromwell's propagandists succeeded in depicting.

Glenn Foard's brilliant new history of the battle and campaign reveals how close the king's men came to winning the war for their doomed royal master.