Reading Mark Turnbull's English Civil War

A review of the Rebellion Series and 'Charles I's Private Life'

Mar 25, 2025

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Robert Dalzell, 1st Earl of Carnwath, turns Charles I back from his impulse to lead a doomed charge at the Battle of Naseby. Royalist fortunes never recovered

The beginning of the end of the Royalist army is the beginning of Mark Turnbull’s story. The King’s Spy, first book in his novel trilogy set during the English Civil Wars, begins with Captain Maxwe…

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