Best books on the English Civil War

Diane Purkiss, author of The English Civil War: A People’s History, wrote the (London) Times "Critic's Chart" for books on the English Civil War.

One title on her list:

Paradise Lost by John Milton

England’s only great epic, the war’s most beautiful consequence, and its strangest.

Read about all six titles named by Purkiss.

--Marshal Zeringue