The Story Of England

Nice little book, a brisk over-view of English history, complete with lots of illustrations and handy maps and geneological charts. Everything is just barely touched upon, but a good bibliography is given at the end for those who wish to read further upon the subject. I enjoyed it despite its brevity, but while this little book was well-made and beautifully put together, it had shiny pages that made it a bit diffcult to read - light kept shining off the pages a bit too much and that bothered me.

But overall, if you just want a brief synopsis of Most Things English History, then this is your book. ( )

Nice little book, a brisk over-view of English history, complete with lots of illustrations and handy maps and geneological charts. Everything is just barely touched upon, but a good bibliography is given at the end for those who wish to read further upon the subject. I enjoyed it despite its brevity, but while this little book was well-made and beautifully put together, it had shiny pages that made it a bit diffcult to read - light kept shining off the pages a bit too much and that bothered me.

But overall, if you just want a brief synopsis of Most Things English History, then this is your book. ( )

Excellent introduction to the history of the British Isles.

This is a nice book if you want a very concise history of England. There are some nice photographs and illustrations in the book and the book is very manageable size wise. ( )

This is a good introduction to English history. Concise, informative, highly readable and beautifully illustrated, it presents in a flowing narrative the broad outline of England's political, economic and cultural history from Neolithic times to the 1990's.