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The History Press Ltd The Great Siege of Chester
The appalling effects of civil war are often suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women and children involuntarily caught up in it, as it tears asunder the very fabric of their lives. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for almost four years found themselves at the centre of the battle between King and Parliament. Chester's inhabitants withstood the terrors of bombardment and the rigours of starvation, in one of the most fiercely contested sieges of the Civil War. Using myriad contemporary sources it is possible for the first time to present a detailed picture of the part played in the siege by the 'common sort', the 'forgotten voices' of Chester: ordinary citizens forced by their employers to enlist in the City Regiment, their brutal introduction to the realities of war and their gallant defence of Chester.
£22.50
Helion & Company The King's Irish: The Royalist Anglo-Irish Foot of the English Civil War, 1643-1646
£25.00
Helion & Company Cavalier Capital: Oxford in the English Civil War 1642-1646
£22.50
Helion & Company The Last Army: The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold and the End of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches 1646
£19.95
Helion & Company Better Begging Than Fighting: The Royalist Army in Exile in the War Against Cromwell 1656-1660
£19.95
Helion & Company 'A Rabble of Gentility': The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45
£19.95