War and Revolution in the British Isles: A Captivating Guide to the English Civil War, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the Irish War of Independence - Paperback

Three conflicts. Two islands. One question that would not die: who has the right to rule? This 3-in-1 book tells the story of the wars that toppled a king and forged a republic.
Three manuscripts in one book:

• The English Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflict Between Royalists and Parliamentarians That Shaped England's Future
• The Easter Rising of 1916: A Captivating Guide to the Irish Rebellion That Sparked the Fight for Independence
• The Irish War of Independence: A Captivating Guide to Ireland's Struggle for Freedom from British Rule (1919-1921)

What happens when a people decide that no king, and no empire, has the right to rule them?

Across three centuries, the British Isles were torn apart by the same collision: the authority of the Crown against the conviction that power must answer to the people. This book brings together three defining conflicts that executed a king, forged a republic, and reshaped the very idea of who holds power in the English-speaking world. Read together, they trace one long argument over a single question, fought first with armies, then with rifles in the street.

Part One: The English Civil War
When Parliament refused to bow, a king went to war with his own people.

• The Road to War. Why Charles I ruled without Parliament for eleven years, and how that gamble backfired into open conflict.
• Edgehill, Marston Moor, and Naseby. The brilliant tactics and catastrophic blunders of Cavaliers and Roundheads, and the battle that shattered the king's army.
• A Kingdom Without a King. The execution of Charles I, the birth of the Commonwealth, and why it broke the belief in divine monarchy across Europe.

Part Two: The Easter Rising of 1916
Two and a half centuries later, the same question crossed the Irish Sea.

• The Secret Networks. The Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Volunteers, and James Connolly's Citizen Army, who planned a rebellion beneath British surveillance.
• Six Days That Burned Dublin. The seizure of the GPO, the British gunboat on the Liffey, and the surrender that ended Easter Week.
• How Defeat Became Victory. The executions at Kilmainham Gaol that turned the rebels into martyrs and lit the fuse for a war of independence.

Part Three: The Irish War of Independence
What a failed rebellion began, a guerrilla war would finish.

• From Home Rule to Open Revolt. How Sinn Féin won the hearts of the public and the fight moved from the ballot box to the gun.
• Michael Collins and the Guerrilla War. The flying columns, the intelligence war, and the ruthless campaign against the Black and Tans.
• The Treaty and the Split. The high-stakes Anglo-Irish negotiations that created the Irish Free State while the north stayed British, and the bitter civil war the Treaty left behind.

Together, these three conflicts reveal how one question - whether kings, parliaments, or the people themselves should govern - remade Britain and Ireland and reshaped the modern world. From the battlefields of seventeenth-century England to the streets of revolutionary Dublin, this is the connected story of an idea that could not be put down.

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