Oliver Cromwell cover art

Oliver Cromwell

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Oliver Cromwell

By: Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

As a foremost historian of his time, Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s evaluation of Oliver Cromwell has generally been perceived as a work of great significance. Gardiner applies his highly credited critical eye to one of England’s great military and political leaders. Cromwell rose to power during a time of turbulence and civil distress during which he was admired for certain attributes, yet distrusted for others, including his loyalties to Puritanism.

Public Domain (P)2018 Museum Audiobooks Historical Politicians Politics & Activism French Revolution England

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy cover art
Our First Civil War cover art
Thomas Jefferson cover art
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence cover art
The Protector cover art
War by Timetable cover art
Cornwallis cover art
Rights of Man cover art
William Wallace cover art
Abraham Lincoln cover art
Alexander Hamilton cover art
Henry VIII cover art
Louis Botha cover art
The History of Rome, Book 1 cover art
The Age of Reason cover art
Henry VIII cover art
All stars
Most relevant
narrator had terrible diction and lacked familiarity with English place names. I would guess that English isnt the mother tongue of the narrator as numerous words mispronounced. Lack of personal insights into oliver cromwell which was dissappointing as historical facts are easily found but an examination of the man himself was hoped for. I struggled to listen and gave up after one chapter.

Terrible pronunciation and lack of detail

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It is a surprise that a native speaker is not selected for an historical book. Poor enunciation ruins an excellent book. Reading (the town is NOT read-ing but red-ing. Worcester is not war-cester but Wooseter. These are poor errors and should not be permited in a non-fiction book! Many sentences are misconstrued by poor emphasis that a native speaker would know instinctively. I feel cheated in purchasing this book. I could only bear an hour of this torture. Selling it is really mis-representation! Do not listen if good use of language matters to you.

Badly read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Narration and editing awful. Place names mis-pronounced. Editing bad, with phrases repeated. Please don’t waste your money.

Don’t waste your money

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.