Faces of Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was a bigot who stifled pleasures, ruthlessly ended the world's first socialistic movement and had grand designs to make himself King Oliver I. Oliver Cromwell was a hero with a sense of humour, a bursting conscience in matters of state and religion and personally unambitious. Which assessment even approaches the truth? And how do modern historians view the Parliamentarian some have called the Greatest Englishman? An excellent Cromwell succeeds where many have failed DAILY TELEGRAPH
Series editor ROY DAVIES Written and produced by MARGARET WINDHAM HEFFERNAN (R)