READ IN A DAY. REMEMBER FOR A LIFETIME.
In his bestselling, internationally-acclaimed _The Shortest History of
Germany_, James Hawes told the story of a nation in 240 invigorating
pages, tracing the roots of today's challenges back to the first
encounters with Rome. In _The Shortest History of England_, he takes
the same approach to his homeland. As he journeys from Caesar to
Brexit via Conquest, Empire and World War, he discovers an England
very different to the standard vision. Our stable island fortress,
stubbornly independent, the begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning
empires, is riven by an ancient fault-line that predates even the
Romans; its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours,
whether we like it or not; and -- for the past 1,000 years -- it has
harboured a class system like nowhere else on Earth. There has never
been a better time to understand why England is the way it is -- and
there is no better guide.
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ISBN
9781910400708
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Old Street Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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