num_pages: 576
description: In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England's prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I's death.
language: English
title: Cromwell
titlecomplete: Cromwell
characters: Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Thomas Fairfax
genres: British Literature, Historical, History, Biography Memoir, World History, Biography, English Civil War, 17th Century, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 921
places: Drogheda, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Naseby, England, Gainsborough, England, Preston, Lancashire, England, Wexford, United Kingdom, House of Commons, Westminster, London, Worcester, England
publisher: Grove Press