BOOKS: A very British coup; Civil War: the wars of the three kingdoms By Trevor Royle LITTLE, BROWN pounds 25 (888pp) pounds 22 (plus free p&p per order) from 0870 079 8897.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: March 19, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Sharpe

From the moment the last battle was decided, scholars have fought over the causes, course and consequences of the civil wars. Over the last quarter-century especially, waves of revisionists have entered the fray, armed with new perspectives, the latest insisting on the British dimension of what had been studied as an English conflict. Trevor Royle's Civil War: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 is the first popular account of the wars in three kingdoms that follows the interactions of Scotland, England and Ireland from the revolt against the new ...