Vintage account of the life of Oliver Cromwell concentrating on his character rather than a strict history:

Cromwell A Character Study

by John Drinkwater

Published by Hodder and Stoughton. People's Library edition

Contents; Introduction; Birth and Childhood; Environment of Youth; Marriage and a Puritan Home; Parliament: The Petition of Right; Divine Right; Preparations - Eliot, Laud; The Star Chamber - Ship Money; The Short Parliament; Assembling of the Long Parliament: The Representative Puritan; Execution of Strafford - the Grand Remonstrance; The First Civil War - Edgehill - the Eastern Association; The Ironsides - Marston Moor and Naseby - First Civil War Ends; The Army and the Parliament; The Execution of the King; Cromwell in 1649; Ireland; Dunbar and Worcester; Lord Protector; First Protectate Parliament; Second Protectorate Parliament - Cromwell and Kingship; Last Days and Death.

Small Hardbacks, 266 pages, 12 cm by 17.5 cm.

Good condition

No dust jacket. Minor wear and marks to the cover including a small indentation to the side edge of the front board. Binding intact but narrow gaps between adjacent pages in a couple of places where the binding cloth can be seen. The endpapers are browned. Occasional small mark on the inner pages but most pages look clean.

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