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CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS

on Network Three

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A series of six programmes in which a historian and a professor of the history of war visit the scenes of five battles and one siege to describe the events of three centuries ago on the sites where they actually took place.
Speakers:
C. V. Wedgwood and N. H. Gibbs l-Edgehill : October 1642
The speakers discuss the pleasures and problems of battlefield-hunting and describe the strategy and tactics used in this first full-scale battle of the war, to which the bulk of the rank and file -and even some of the commanders-came without any professional training
C. V. Wedgwood writes on page 3
A twenty-four-page illustrated pamphlet can be obtained, price Is 3d., through newsagents and booksellers or by sending a crossed postal order for Is. 3d. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]

Contributors

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N. H. Gibbs

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