Battlefields in Britain

About this book

Written by the notable historian Dame Veronica Wedgwood and originally published in the Collins' 'Pictures of Britain' series, this book is an accessible text listing and explaining the major battles that occurred within the British Isles from the Norman Conquest up to the 1940s.Battles listed include: Hastings, The Welsh Wars, Falkirk, Bannockburn, Barnet, Tewkesbury, Bosworth, Flodden, Edgehill, Marston Moor, Inverlochy, Naseby, Dunbar, Killiecrankie, and Culloden. Each battle is accompanied by a battle map from the era. At the end of her description of the Battle of Culloden, Wedgwood movingly alludes to the impending threat of a German invasion and the airmen caught up in the Battle of Britain who “left the quivering air signed with their honour.”