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Cromwell --- Thomas --- Earl of Essex --- 1485?-1540
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A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen's Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Martin, Charles Cromwell, --- Canada.
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Cromwell --- Thomas --- Earl of Essex --- 1485?-1540 --- Drama
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How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VIII's chief minister. Michael Everett provides a new and enlightening account of Cromwell's rise to power, his influence on the king, his role in the Reformation, and his impact on the future of the nation. Controversially, Everett depicts Cromwell not as the fervent evangelical, Machiavellian politician, or the revolutionary administrator that earlier historians have perceived. Instead he reveals Cromwell as a highly capable and efficient servant of the Crown, rising to power not by masterminding Henry VIII's split with Rome but rather by dint of exceptional skills as an administrator.
Statesmen --- Hommes d'Etat --- Biography --- Biographies --- Cromwell, Thomas, --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- Essex, Thomas Cromwell, --- Court and courtiers
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"Oliver Cromwell had not a drop of royal blood in him. Yet in 1657, prompted by the political chaos that followed the execution of Charles I and inspired by a belief that a return to monarchy was the only way to stabilize the nation, parliament offered Cromwell the crown of Britain. In Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King, Benjamin Woodford explores how factions both inside and outside of government reacted to this unprecedented event. Moving away from a biographical focus on Cromwell, Woodford looks to the print culture of the period to examine kingship and the Cromwellian regime as a complex phenomenon that elicited diverse reactions - from broadly in favour to dead-set against. Woodford analyzes Cromwell's speeches along with propaganda, newspapers, poetry, republican writings, and the works of religious sects. The fact that many of these writings were produced by men and women who were not members of the government demonstrates that both politicians and the general public were interested in the topics of Cromwell and kingship. Cromwell's military and political power rendered him a candidate for kingship, but even with his record of achievement, the offer of the crown to a non-nobleman was controversial. Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King reveals the entire nation's responses to the kingship debates while simultaneously illustrating the persistence of the monarchy in the 1650s."--Publisher's website.
Press --- Heads of state --- Media, News --- Media, The --- News media --- Journalism --- Publicity --- Newspapers --- Periodicals --- History --- Cromwell, Oliver, --- Cromwell, Oliver --- Cromwel, Oliver --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Monarchy
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