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Oliver Cromwell was never supposed to matter. A minor country squire from Huntingdon, he stumbled into Parliament in 1640 with no great name, no fortune and no clear future. Within a decade he had destroyed a king, broken the last serious royalist armies in Britain, ruled as Lord Protector over England, Scotland and Ireland - and left behind a legacy still argued over three and a half centuries later. Oliver Cromwell - Lord Protector follows his journey from anxious, little-known backbencher to the most powerful man in the British Isles. It traces the brutal learning curve of the English Civil Wars, the decision to put Charles I on trial, the horrors of Drogheda and Wexford, the ""crowning mercies"" at Dunbar and Worcester, and the difficult experiments of the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Inside you'll find: - A clear, fast-moving narrative of Cromwell's rise through war and politics - A frank account of the Irish and Scottish campaigns and their lasting scars - The making and breaking of the Protectorate - from dissolving the Rump to turning down the crown - An honest look at his faith, his family life, and the contradictions that shaped his rule - A concise timeline and selected reading list for deeper study Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, this book treats Cromwell as he was: a hard, complicated man who believed, with dangerous sincerity, that God had chosen him to remake a nation. Oliver Cromwell - Lord Protector is the first volume in Lords of the Seventeenth Century, a series of sharp, readable biographies exploring the rulers, rebels and visionaries who carved that turbulent age.

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