The Stuart Restoration: The History and Legacy of the English Monarchy's Return to Power in the Late 17th Century

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most important men in England's history, but everything he struggled for collapsed within two decades of his death. The army, Parliament and the citizens of London grappled with each other for control of the country, and even the army no longer remained a united political force. Civil war almost broke out again as a force under Lambert failed to prevent General Monck, the military governor of Scotland, from marching south and dissolving the Rump Parliament. Ex...