Cromwell: Our Chief Of Men
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library with usual markings
Few figures in British history inspire such fierce and enduring controversy as Oliver Cromwell — soldier, statesman, regicide, and Lord Protector — and Antonia Fraser's magisterial biography presents the full, contradictory complexity of the man in all its dramatic force. Drawing on an exhaustive range of primary sources, Fraser chronicles Cromwell's extraordinary rise from obscure Huntingdonshire gentleman-farmer to the most powerful ruler England had seen since the Tudors, mapping every turn of the Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I, and the turbulent years of the Interregnum with scholarly precision and narrative verve. Fraser argues persuasively that Cromwell was neither the saint his admirers claimed nor the devil his detractors insisted upon, but rather a man of profound religious conviction perpetually caught between ruthless pragmatism and genuine idealism. Her prose is authoritative yet richly accessible, anchoring grand political drama in vivid personal detail — from the blood-soaked campaigns of Ireland and Scotland to the intimate corridors of Whitehall. Cromwell: Our Chief of Men stands as one of the landmark works of twentieth-century British biography, and its final pages leave the reader wondering whether England ever truly recovered from the world Cromwell made — and unmade.
Author: Antonia Fraser
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library with usual markings
Few figures in British history inspire such fierce and enduring controversy as Oliver Cromwell — soldier, statesman, regicide, and Lord Protector — and Antonia Fraser's magisterial biography presents the full, contradictory complexity of the man in all its dramatic force. Drawing on an exhaustive range of primary sources, Fraser chronicles Cromwell's extraordinary rise from obscure Huntingdonshire gentleman-farmer to the most powerful ruler England had seen since the Tudors, mapping every turn of the Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I, and the turbulent years of the Interregnum with scholarly precision and narrative verve. Fraser argues persuasively that Cromwell was neither the saint his admirers claimed nor the devil his detractors insisted upon, but rather a man of profound religious conviction perpetually caught between ruthless pragmatism and genuine idealism. Her prose is authoritative yet richly accessible, anchoring grand political drama in vivid personal detail — from the blood-soaked campaigns of Ireland and Scotland to the intimate corridors of Whitehall. Cromwell: Our Chief of Men stands as one of the landmark works of twentieth-century British biography, and its final pages leave the reader wondering whether England ever truly recovered from the world Cromwell made — and unmade.