The English Civil Wars 16401660 Author:Blair Worden One of the most renowned historians of the English Civil War has written a crisp and lucid narrative of the complicated events of 1640 to 1660not just the war between King and Parliament of 1642-46 but the second civil war, the execution of King Charles I, the rule of Cromwell, and finally the restoration of the monarchy. Blair Worden gets... more » behind the preoccupations of later generations and explains what contemporaries on both sides thought they were fighting for and against.« less