Cromwell
Subtitle: The Lord Protector
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Ebook
ISBN-13: 9780802195821
Copyright date: 1973
Other titles: Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
Description: From the Author's Note...

To write the biography of Oliver Cromwell is admittedly an ambitious undertaking. In view of the wonderful wealth of material on the subject in existence, to say nothing of the living giants of seventeenth-century research who stalk the land, I hope it may not also seem presumptuous. My aim has however been a different one from that of the scholars from whose works I have derived such benefit. I have wished more simply to rescue the personality of Oliver Cromwell from the obscurity into which it seemed to me that it had fallen, just because there has been such an invaluable concentration on, the political and social trends of the age in which he lived. It is at least possible to claim that Cromwell was the greatest Englishman. In the hopes of explaining to the general reader something of this remarkable man, I have set about my task - as one historian put it to me, half in jest - of “humanizing” Oliver Cromwell.
Notes: "Cromwell: The Lord Protector" is the American title. The English title is "Cromwell: Our Chief of Men" under the publisher, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
Table of contents: title: Author’s Note; label: PART ONE
title: THE GOVERNMENT OF HIMSELF; label: 1
title: By Birth a Gentleman; label: 2
title: His Own Fields; label: 3
title: Growing to Authority; label: 4
title: Grand Remonstrance; label: PART TWO
title: WAR AND PEACE; label: 5
title: Noble and Active Colonel Cromwell; label: 6
title: Ironsides; label: 7
title: Happy victory; label: 8
title: Falling Out Among Themselves; label: 9
title: The Game at Cards; label: 10
title: The Mischievous War; label: 11
title: Providence and Necessity; label: PART THREE
title: THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND; label: 12
title: All Things Become New; label: 13
title: Ireland: Effusion of Blood; label: 14
title: Scotland: The Decision of the Cause; label: 15
title: A Settlement of the Nation; label: 16
title: At the Edge of Prophecies; label: PART FOUR
title: LORD PROTECTOR; label: 17
title: Grandeur; label: 18
title: Briers and Thorns; label: 19
title: At Work in the World; label: 20
title: Jews and Major-Generals; label: 21
title: A Royal Sceptre; label: 22
title: Old Oliver, New Ideas; label: 23
title: The Great Captain; label: 24
title: Cromwell’s Dust; title: References; title: Reference Books; title: Index