Charles Harding Firth
ASIN: B00RHW143Q
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 342
"Firth stands as the classic Victorian...interpreter of Cromwell...much useful information." -Oliver Cromwell: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide (2010)"Professor Samuel Gardiner...consulted the Cromwellian expert Charles Firth." -Cromwell's Masterstroke: Dunbar 1650 (2006)"Sir Charles Firth alleged that Oliver Cromwell observed the way in which Balfour conserved his forces and drew on the experience in formulating his battlefield tactics." -Decisive Battles of the English Civil War (2006)"There is...going still further back Sir Charles Firth's unrivalled 'Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England.'" -Cromwell (2007)For nearly 200 year after his death so little was known of Oliver Cromwell's personal views and motives that he was generally regarded as, in Hume's words, "a hypocritical fanatic." Carlyle's researches were sufficient to refute the charge of ...