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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 English Intelligence Gathering Before the War; 2 Intelligence Sources and their Military Applications; 3 The Strategic Direction and Integration of Military Intelligence; 4 Establishing the Role of Intelligence -- the Edgehill Campaign 1642; 5 The War Expands -- Intelligence Operations in 1643; 6 The Tide Turns -- Intelligence Operations in 1644; 7 The Triumph of Intelligence Operations -- The Campaigns of 1645; 8 The Impact of Historical Perceptions On Our Understanding of Civil War Operations. |
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9 Military Intelligence -- A 'Walk in the Dark' or the Deciding Factor?Appendix -- Royalist and Parliamentarian Scoutmasters; Bibliography; Picture Section. |
| Summary |
During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury, and Naseby raged, another war was being fought. Its combatants fought with cunning and deceit, a hidden conflict that nevertheless would steer the course of history. The story of the spies and intelligence-gatherers of the Roundheads and Royalists is one that sheds new light on the birth of the Commonwealth. In To Walk in the Dark, intelligence specialist John Ellis presents the first comprehensive analysis of the First English Civil War intelligence services. He details the methods of the Roundhead spies who provided their army commanders with a constant flow of information about the movements of the King's armies, describes the earliest use of code-breaking and mail interception and shows how the Cavalier intelligence forces were overcome. He also reveals the intelligence personnel themselves: the shadowy spymasters, agents, and femme fatales. The descriptions of how intelligence information was used in the main Civil War battles are particularly fascinating and show-for the first time-how intelligence information played a decisive role in determining the outcome of the Civil War itself. --Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Military intelligence.
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Military intelligence. |
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Great Britain. |
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English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) |
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1642-1649 |
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History.
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Print version: Ellis, John. To Walk in the Dark : Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646. Stroud : The History Press, ©2016 9780752460239 |
| ISBN |
0750980087 |
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9780750980081 (electronic book) |
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