EAN: 9780141031651

THE ENGLISH & THEIR HISTORY - ROBERT TOMBS KART...

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