Murder Madness Pb [Hardcover]

James Scott Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999

Cromwell in Ireland is the first modern account of the campaign, set against the long history of the 1640s from the Ulster Catholic rebellion of 1641 to the execution of King Charles 1. Moreover, it completes the story by recounting the long mopping-up operation that followed Cromwell's own departure. Not until 1653 did the Cromwellians establish full control of the island. For the first time in history, Ireland lay completely under the sway of an English ruler. Scott Wheeler's panoramic survey history of these crucial years in Anglo-Irish relations is the first narrative overview of the subject in modern times and is informed by the author's specialist training as a military historian.

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James Scott Wheeler is a colonel in the United States Army and is Associate Professor of European History at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0717128849
• ISBN-13: 978-0717128846
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,371,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Irish Overmatched, December 4, 2001

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John J. Ross (Chestnut Hill, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cromwell in Ireland (Hardcover)

Professor Wheeler's book is an excellent military and political history of the tumultuous and devastating decade in Irish history of the Cromwellian conquest. This Irish disaster unfolds slowly, but seems a foregone conclusion almost from the start, given the deep political divisions between Gaelic Irish, Old (Catholic) English, and Royalist Protestants that prevented the development of an effective anti-Cromwellian coalition. Furthermore, the generally brave, but notoriously undisciplined Irish levies were no match for Cromwell's New Model Army. (Although when well-led, the Irish were capable of giving Oliver a bloody nose, as at Clonmel, perhaps Cromwell's weakest display of generalship.) The only major criticism of this volume is it lacks somewhat in the flashes of color and character that give pleasure to posterity.

Wheeler documents the surprising brutality of both sides. Any reader seeking the ancient roots of the deep sectarian hatred in Ulster today would find this volume a good starting point.

It occurs to this contemporary reader that the furies and fanaticism of the era, and the figures of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, and Ludlow, with their inhumanity, bigotry, violence, and barbarity, are eerily and unpleasantly familiar. For what is Osama bin Laden but Cromwell with a Kalashnikov, what are the Taliban but Roundheads with rocket launchers?

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OR WHAT IS THE HYPOCRITICAL PURITAN BUSH ARMIES BUT, August 1, 2006

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This review is from: Murder Madness Pb (Hardcover)

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