Turncoat : Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis Sewell

Turncoat : Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis SewellNew Hardback George Downing was one of the English Civil War's most cunning spies. As Oliver Cromwell's head of military intelligence, he forged a career as a politician and diplomat, bribing, blackmailing and browbeating his way to success, before spectacularly betraying his friends by defecting to the Royalist camp. Always close to the action, Downing walked with the most illustrious men of his times: Oliver Cromwell and Charles II were his patrons;

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