Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it
clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as
separate states. He narrates in detail the the events following the
exiled King Charles II's landing in Scotland and his alliance with the
Scots Covenanters, erstwhile allies of the English Parliamentarians.
Cromwell's preemptive invasion of Scotland led to the Battle of Dunbar,
a crushing defeat for the Scots under David Leslie, though this only
unified the Scottish cause and led to the levying of the Army of the
Kingdom under Charles II himself. Charles II led a desperate
counter-invasion over the border, hoping to raise a royalist rebellion
and forcing Cromwell to follow him, though he left Monck to complete the
pacification of Scotland.
Cromwell caught up with Charles II at Worcester, where the
Scots/Royalist army was decisively defeated and destroyed, thousands of
the prisoners being sold into slavery in the West Indies and the
American colonies.
This revised and updated edition contains an expanded chapter on the
aftermath of the war and the fate of the POWs, drawing on major new
archaeological evidence, as well as an expanded Conclusion.