The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters

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Author Robert Tombs
Format Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 2023-11-16
Pages 1056
ISBN-13 9781802064230

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The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters

”Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present” Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the Year

In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric ”dreamtime” through to the present day.

”As ambitious as it is successful . . . Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, a vast and delightful book” Ben MacIntyre, The Times, Books of the Year

”A stupendous achievement … a story of a people we can”t fail to recognize: stoical, brave, drunken, bloody-minded, violent, undeferential, yet paradoxically law-abiding … I found myself gripped” Daniel Hannan, Spectator

”Original and enormously readable, this brilliant, hugely engaging work has a sly wit and insouciance that are of themselves rather English” Sinclair MacKay, Daily Telegraph

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Weight 0.762 kg
Dimensions 5 × 19.8 × 13 cm
Author

Robert Tombs

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint

Penguin

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781802064230

Publication Date

2023-11-16

Publication Year

2023

Pages

1056

Country of Publication

GB

Language

English

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