About the Book: House of Cromwell: Britains Forgotten Dynasty
I know no rival to this book in its presentation of a major dynasty in English
history DIARMAID MACCULLOCH/p>
Fascinating, gripping, revelatory KATE WILLIAMS/p>
THOMAS MADE ENGLAND. OLIVER MADE BRITAIN. /p>
Within a century, the Cromwell family produced two of the most powerful,
impactful and controversial commoners in British history. Thomas served the
Tudors, helping to forge Henry VIIIs autocratic state and the Church of England;
Oliver led a revolution that executed a king, abolished the monarchy and
established a republic, before founding a ruling dynasty. Each rose from
obscurity to the