Books: Letting Cromwell off the hook This grim history of the English Civil war shows Frank McLynn how fragile `civilisation' always is; Civil War By Trevor Royle LITTLE, BROWN pounds 25 pounds 22(P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

The Independent on Sunday | March 7, 2004| | Copyright

The nine years of civil war that consumed the British Isles in the years 1642-51 were the bloodiest and most violent in the entire history of these islands. It is estimated that in England one in four people out of a population of five million was caught up in the conflict, and in the county of Devon alone 12,000 deaths were attributable to the war. Battle casualties in England totalled 85,000 - 4,000 Royalist troops were slaughtered in just two hours at Marston Moor in 1644 - and there were another 40,000 non-combatant deaths as a result of war-borne disease. In Scotland the respective ...

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