Featured battle : Cropredy Bridge

Part of The Civil Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Date : 29 June 1644

The King, after deciding not to assault Waller's troops near Banbury, made for the bridge over the Cherwell at Cropredy. Waller, seeing that the Kings forces had become spread out, attacked and attempted to block the Royalist path across the bridge. Valiant action by the Royalist horse under Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland permitted King Charles to regroup and repulse Waller's main attack who fell back.

Salamanca 1812. Wellington's Year of Victories.

Peter Edwards
A high level of research is presented in a most readable way. The book has a pervading quality in its insights which can only come from an experienced 'military mind'. Throughout the author uses appropriate and varied selection of original text providing both colour and veracity. The maps are few and lacking in detail, in Further Reading the author recommends Ian Robertson's Atlas of the Peninsular War which I would have found most useful in this case. That said however this book is difficult to put down once started and thoroughly recommended.
The Praetorian Press, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013