On the pivotal day of 14 June 1645 Charles I's Royalist Army and Parliament's New Model Army met in battle at Naseby. Using first-hand accounts, Martin Marix Evans introduces the origins of the campaign, explores the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing armies, and vividly describes the engagement. The traditional condemnation of Price Rupert's imilitary strategy is undermined, and the significance of Okey's Dragoons in precipitating the action explained. He imparts his intimate knowledge of the terrain so crucial to the New Model Army's frontage, and uses archaeological and documentary evidence to piece together a blow-by-blow account of this devastating battle. -book cover.

Origins of the Campaign --7 -- Military situation -- Logistical constraints -- Centres of power -- Movement -- Campaign of 1645 -- Opposing Commanders -- 17 -- Royalist commanders -- Parliamentarian commanders -- Opposing Armies -- 22 -- Equipment, formations and tactics -- New Model Army -- Royalist 'Oxford' Army -- Orders of battle -- Opposing Plans -- 36 -- Parliamentary plans -- Royalist plans -- Campaign -- 38 -- Parliamentary preliminaries -- Royalists' opening moves -- Committee of Both Kingdoms responds -- Question of Oxford -- Taking of Leicester -- Question of Oxford - again -- Parliament responds: 2-13 June -- Royalists' week: 7-13 June -- Battle of Naseby -- 54 -- Battle plans and the start of the day -- New Model advances -- Move to Dust Hill -- Ground and the battalia -- Battle begins -- Turn of the tide -- Fighting retreat -- Final phase -- Aftermath -- 86 -- Hindsight -- Fortunes of the king -- Battlefield Today -- 91.