Cromwell The Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser
Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, fourth printing 1974.

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic.

Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the British Isles, considered a dictator by historians such as David Sharp, a military dictator by Winston Churchill,but a hero of liberty by John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Rawson Gardiner, and a class revolutionary by Leon Trotsky. In a 2002 BBC poll in Britain, Cromwell, sponsored by military historian Richard Holmes, was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time. However, his tolerance of Protestant sects did not extend to Catholics: his measures against them in Ireland have been characterized as genocidal, and in Ireland his record is harshly criticized.

Condition; Good, hard cover, no dust jacket. bumped corners, former owners name inside front cover. Some fading to the spine. Binding tight.