Oliver Cromwell

In this magnificent biography, John Buchan sets out to reshape the way the soldier and the statesman is perceived. Born in 1599, Cromwell was a devout Puritan who, when the civil war broke out, quickly joined the Parliamentary forces. After establishing the Commonwealth, Cromwell suppressed the Levellers, the Irish and the Scots. Oliver Cromwell’ a thrillingly involving biography, told by the author of the Richard Hannay thrillers that are among the early classics of the genre.