Oliver Cromwell
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Scarce DJ - chipped with some loss. . Boards - good. Binding - slightly shaky. Text - Moderate foxing.
A masterful work of historical biography, John Buchan's Oliver Cromwell chronicles the life of one of England's most formidable and controversial figures, tracing his rise from a Huntingdonshire farmer to Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. Buchan presents Cromwell not as a rigid Puritan zealot, but as a complex, deeply human leader whose religious conviction and military genius reshaped the political landscape of seventeenth-century Britain. With the narrative authority and vivid prose that distinguished Buchan as both a novelist and statesman, the biography illuminates the contradictions at the heart of Cromwell's character — a man of profound faith who ordered brutal military campaigns, and a champion of Parliament who ultimately ruled as a near-monarch. Drawing on extensive historical sources, Buchan argues that Cromwell's legacy is inseparable from the broader struggle for liberty and constitutional government in the English-speaking world. The result is a richly detailed, compulsively readable portrait that stands as one of the finest political biographies of the twentieth century.
Author: John Buchan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1934, Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd.
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed., 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Scarce DJ - chipped with some loss. . Boards - good. Binding - slightly shaky. Text - Moderate foxing.
A masterful work of historical biography, John Buchan's Oliver Cromwell chronicles the life of one of England's most formidable and controversial figures, tracing his rise from a Huntingdonshire farmer to Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. Buchan presents Cromwell not as a rigid Puritan zealot, but as a complex, deeply human leader whose religious conviction and military genius reshaped the political landscape of seventeenth-century Britain. With the narrative authority and vivid prose that distinguished Buchan as both a novelist and statesman, the biography illuminates the contradictions at the heart of Cromwell's character — a man of profound faith who ordered brutal military campaigns, and a champion of Parliament who ultimately ruled as a near-monarch. Drawing on extensive historical sources, Buchan argues that Cromwell's legacy is inseparable from the broader struggle for liberty and constitutional government in the English-speaking world. The result is a richly detailed, compulsively readable portrait that stands as one of the finest political biographies of the twentieth century.