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# The Making of Oliver Cromwell Paperback – 23 Aug. 2022

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wonderful view of Cromwell
*by A***R on 12 March 2025*

I found this book a riveting read that gave a slightly different view of Cromwell, and a very interesting one. Would highly recommend to anyone with an interest in this period of history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cromwell, the Ruthless Independent
*by C***N on 25 September 2021*

I enjoyed this very much. The early part of the book can be a bit frustrating because Hutton has limited data to go on in compiling his history, but he is fastidious in clarifying exactly what can be known and what has to be guessed.Once the Civil War gets underway we are on much clearer territory. I have read several books on this period but this is by far the best at describing the blow by blow development of the campaign, the constant replanning that had to be made by both sides as the war ranged all over England from Cornwall to Newcastle and all points in between.Also fascinating is the way disputes within the Puritan party about religion were a crucial factor which Cromwell had to pay as much attention to as he did to the military campaign, because it affected it crucially. His own soldiers were Independents, who wanted freedom of worship, whereas the majority in line with their Scottish allies wanted a three line whip behind the Presbyterian Church. It might be thought this freedom, this generous spirit, was integral to Cromwell’s military success as he supported his men to the hilt and when the military situation allowed was generous in victory. As no doubt Mr Hutton will explain if he produces further volumes on Cromwell, this tension between Cromwell’s own views and the Presbyterians was to be the main theme for the rest of his life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A sound book but a missed opportunity
*by F***T on 8 December 2021*

More than three centuries after his death, Oliver Cromwell remains a controversial figure: hero to some, devil to others. Ronald Hutton has confined this volume (he hints there might be another) to Cromwell's rise to national prominence at the close of the First Civil War in 1646. He pays a number of prices for this focus on the early years, not the least of which is the relative paucity of material about the first forty years of Cromwell's life. This alone makes the biographer's task of describing and explaining the origins of the subject's personality and interests well nigh impossible. It is not just that Cromwell springs into recorded history fully formed, a man already into middle age and set in his ways, but that the contrast between the traceably dull and petulant yeoman of pre-War days and the brash and successful cavalry commander of the 1640s is so great that it defies understanding. The other heavy price that Hutton pays is that he is obliged by the available evidence to concentrate very heavily on the detail of Cromwell's military activities. This becomes at times dizzyingly complex, even tedious. It also obscures Cromwell's political activity. It seemed to me that in this book Cromwell existed only within a tiny circle of light, like an actor on a darkened stage, while all the social and family contacts he undoubtedly had were lost in the shadows behind him. Indeed this lack of context worried me all the way through the book. Associates and opponents flitted in and out of the story but were seldom fleshed out. Nor were the burning constitutional issues of the day.Hutton's style is puzzling. He can write the most lyrical descriptions of the English countryside (though for my taste these appear too often and are too artificially inserted) and yet some of his sentences are jagged and clunky, even to the point of making his meaning unclear. Greater clarity was also wanting in his references to his subject who appears seemingly at random as either 'Oliver' or 'Cromwell' and occasionally as both in the same sentence. This is not made easier by the fact that his uncle of the same name also intrudes at different places.Hutton is at his strongest when marshalling his ideas to analyse Cromwell's character - the final chapter does this very effectively - but he does not do enough to show us Cromwell's true nature through his words and actions. Too often Hutton prefers to precis a letter or speech instead of quoting from it, and we lose something of the flavour of the man by not hearing his own words. My main misgiving, though, is that we learn too little of his family, especially his redoubtable mother and his long-suffering wife. What we are given here is the public Cromwell, not the man, warts and all. It is a clever book but a missed opportunity. Nonetheless, I hope he writes the second volume, which I shall read with keen interest.

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