Oliver Cromwell ranks as one of the most hotly debated figures in the whole of English history. He has been both applauded and reviled and his memory invoked in periods and in countries other than his own. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman and the conflicting images are the subject of this book. Based on the unfinished magnum opus of the leading seventeenth-century scholar, Roger Howell (1936‒89) this book also includes chapters by a team of leading international experts on a broad range of subjects...