Everybody knows that Oliver Cromwell gave King Charles I the chop and clobbered the Cavaliers with his Roundheads, but in this book readers will discover all the fascinating facts that they didn't know, such as how Oliver canceled Christmas and banned swearing, and that he was actually hanged and beheaded - after he had already died! It offers everything you ever wanted to know about the man with the warts.

 

This book is part of a book series called Horribly Famous .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Scholastic .

Alan MacDonald lives in Nottingham. He writes both non-fiction and fiction as well as writing for radio and TV. He has a particularly good track record for writing page-turning and accessible historical books. Philip Reeve is a hugely talented author. He won the Carnegie Medal for Here Lies Arthur and is also the author of the Mortal Engines series, and Goblins which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.