Oliver Cromwell (Annotated)

Samuel Rawson Gardiner's Oliver Cromwell is a compact yet penetrating historical study of the soldier-statesman who reshaped seventeenth-century England. Written in Gardiner's characteristically sober, evidentiary prose, the book situates Cromwell amid the Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth, and the Protectorate. Rather than indulge either hagiography or denunciation, Gardine...