Cromwell: The Lord Protector (Grove Great Lives Series)

New York: Grove Press, 2001. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. 3rd printing. Wrappers lightly rubbed. 2001 Trade Paperback. xvi, 774 pp. "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." Includes: Author's Note; Part One: The Government of Himself - By Birth a Gentleman, His Own Fields, Growing to Authority, Grand Remonstrance; Part Two: War and Peace - Noble and Active Colonel Cromwell, Ironsides, Happy Victory, Falling Out Among Themselves, The Game at Cards, The Mischievous War, Providence and Necessity; Part Three: The Commonwealth of England - AlL Things Become New, Ireland: Effusion of Blood, Scotland: The Decision of the Cause, A Settlement of the Nation, At the Edge of Prophecies; Part Four: Lord Protector - Grandeur, Briers and Thorns, At Work in the World, Jews and Major-Generals, A Royal Sceptre, Old Oliver, New Ideas, The Great Captain, Cromwell's Dust, References, Reference Books, Index.