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pp. 743, hardcover edition. “With her historian’s understanding of the circumstances and challenges of Cromwell’s time, with her biographer’s penetrating insight into the flow and convolutions of his thinking and his personality, Antonia Fraser brings us vividly into the presence of the East Anglian country gentleman who loved hunting and falconry, the stern Puritan with a streak of crudity in his speech, the robust, impatient, unpredictable man with his queer and (to some) charming mixture of authority and humility – the operator, the inspired bureaucratic improviser, the great military and political genius who was buttressed, always, by his faith in his mission as God’s instrument.”