Oliver Cromwell: Soldier: the Military Life of a Revolutionary at War.(Book Review)

History Today | January 1, 2005| | Copyright

Oliver Cromwell: Soldier The Military Life of a Revolutionary at War Alan Marshall Brassey's 320 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 85753 343 7

OF THE MAKING OF BIOGRAPHIES of Oliver Cromwell there is no end. Whether stimulated by popular polling such as that of the BBC's Great Britons contest, or by handy anniversaries, publishers and the reading public continue to devour lives of the lord general and lord protector with an appetite that seems never to be sated by the plentiful biographical fare already on offer. Perhaps Cromwell has benefited from recent trends in the ...

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