English Battlefields: 500 Battlefields That Shaped English History - Couverture souple

Rayner, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752441671 ISBN 13 : 9780752441672

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

'Fascinating' - The Sunday Telegraph

England has been fought over for centuries, by invaders and in civil wars. The sites of these desperate struggles are as varied as the reasons they were fought over, be they fields, towns or fortresses, by land, sea or air. These haunted acres are places of commemoration, memory and, above all, history. These are the places where history was made, and as such they form a crucial part of the historic environment.

By ‘reading’ them like any other form of historical evidence, much can be learned about the events which took place there. Through stripping away later features and land use with an eye for the ground, the battlefield historian can, with the use of contemporary accounts, archaeology and military history, reconstruct the events which have shaped the present.

In this fully updated, ground-breaking volume, covering over 500 battlefields, Michael Rayner unravels these various strands and weaves them back together to give clear, concise accounts of the battles that shaped England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MICHAEL RAYNER is Chair of the Battlefields Trust’s Battlefield Panel, and a member of Historic England’s Expert Advisory Group. He has been at the forefront of battlefield preservation and interpretation in the UK for over 30 years since helping to set up the Battlefields Trust, a charity dedicated to protecting battlefield sites across the UK and internationally. His other work includes Battlefields: Exploring the Arenas of War, 1805-1945. He lives in Norfolk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752441671
• ISBN 13: 9780752441672
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible