"A work brimming with intelligence." -Chris Fitter, Rutgers University

In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.

"Thoroughly thought-provoking." - History

"Ehud's Dagger brings the events of the Civil War period and the ordinary people who made them to life." - Observer

"An examination of radical projects which demonstrate the practical contribution of working people to the 1650s." - History Today

"An intense, thoroughly researched new Marxist study of the English Revolution." - Choice

"As an antidote to the distortions of revisionism and as an expression of the continuing vitality of Marxist historiography, Ehud's Dagger is particularly welcome. Three cheers for it!" - Albion

"Holstun writes with a meticulous attention to historical detail, evoking the sense of peering into the past through a window in time." - Reviewer’s Bookwatch