Essential Histories The English Civil Wars gD elec ey RIBN0 Peter Gaunt esaDR PETER GAUNT is Reader in History at Chester College, a College of the University of Liverpool. His writings on the military, political and constitutional history of mid- seventeenth century England, have been widely published and include The British Wars (Routledge, 1997), and a full length biography of Oliver Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell, Blackwell, 1996), Peter Gaunt is Chairman of the The Cromwell Association and editor of the annual journal Cronwelliana. PROFESSOR ROBERT O'NEILL, AO D.PHIL. (Oxon), Hon D. Litt.(ANU), BASSA, Fr Hist S, is the Series Editor of the Essential Histories. His wealth of knowledge and expertise shapes the series content and provides up-to-the- minute research and theory. Born in 1936 an Australian citizen, he served in the Australian army (1955-68) and has held a number of eminent positions in history circles, including the Chichele Professorship of the History of War at All Souls College, University of Oxford, 1987-2001, and the Chairmanship of the Board of the Imperial War Museum and the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He is the author of many books including works on the German Army and the Nazi party, and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Now based in Australia on his retirement from Oxford he is the Chairman of the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute,Essential Histories The English Civil Wars 1642-165 |