Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution. After commanding a small troop in 1643 and, without prior military experience, Cromwell rose to lead the cavalry regiments of the Eastern Association Army and the New Model Army to final victory at Worcester in 1651 and sealed the victory of the Parliamentary forces in Ireland and Scotland, becoming Lord General in 1650. Martyn Bennett analyses Cromwell's military talents and generalship, in addition to his well-attested powerful and even brutal discipline and religious fervour. He examines the controversial Irish campaigns as well as modern accusations of genocide. In providing new perspectives on Cromwell's military career, Bennett adds to our understanding of England's only non-royal head of state.

Illustrations
Maps
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Cromwell the Man.
Chapter Two: Cromwell and the Coming of War.
Chapter Three: Captain Cromwell: the Making of the Soldier
Chapter Four: Cromwell the tactician - Edgehill to Winceby
Chapter Five: Cromwell the General. 1644
Chapter Six: The Politics of War, 1644-1645
Chapter Seven: Cromwell in Command.
Chapter Eight: Cromwell Alone: Ireland 1648-9
Chapter Nine: The Lord General
Chapter Ten: Cromwell at War
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Martyn Bennett is Professor of Early Modern History and Head of Nottingham Trent University Graduate School. His research focuses on the English Civil Wars, the Military Revolution of the Seventeenth Century and the British Isles in the Early Modern period. He is the author of An A-Z of the British and Irish Civil Wars and Oliver Cromwell.