Oliver Cromwell
Hugh Chesterman (Maps) London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1949. Sixteenth Impression [stated]. Hardcover. 554, [2] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Abbreviations. Index. DJ worn. Sticker with name of previous owner on fep. Rear board weak and restrengthened with glue. Frontis illustration. Includes Preface. Also includes chapters on The Countryman; The Cavalry Commander; The King-Breaker; The Lord General; and The Prince. The author has been sparing in his notes, confining his documentation to points which are still dubious, or on which the author's view differs from that generally held. He has, however, been careful to give full references for all Oliver's own written and spoken words. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL ( 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan as Governor General of Canada. He occupied the post until his death. Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the U. K. Derived from a Kirkus review that also addressed a recent biography of Cromwell by Hellaire Belloc. Reported in relation to the Belloc biography, as the trade will want to know how to discriminate between them. My feeling, in reading both, is that the Buchan biography deserves a more popular sale, and that, from the viewpoint of public libraries, and the general reader wishing one biography for a private library, this is a definitive life, and one for a steady pull over a long period. The method is more directly biographical; the man himself stands out as a human being, through anecdotes, sidelights on his personality, sympathetic interpretation of the problems of his time and place in the scheme of things. Cromwell emerges as a product of a troubled era, and one senses the England and the Europe of his day, in clearer vision than through the Belloc biography. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Oliver Cromwell, English Civil War, Cavalry, Hinchingbrooke, Marston Moor, New Model Army, Naseby, Parliament, King Charles, Lord General, Campaign of Worcester, Constable, Battle of Preston, Dunbar
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