The Shortest History of England

By: James Hawes

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Paperback | 2 February 2021

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288 Pages

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With the British Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom a possibility, there's no better time to discover the true history of England.

In the latest addition to the acclaimed Shortest History series, James Hawes demonstrates that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a pacy narrative packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day.

A gallop through England's past shows that it is shot through with ancient fault lines, locked into European history and overlaid with that most English of factors- class.

The world's most successful colonial culture has been rife with tension and challenge, from the Roman invasion through the Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes; to the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-French Empire and the Reformation; to the Empire and the wars of the twentieth century; and up to the question-filled present.

About the Author

James Hawes was born in 1960. He read German at Oxford University, where he was allowed to hold the original manuscript of Kafka's Das Schloss.

After completing a PhD on Nietzsche, he lectured in German Studies at various universities, leaving academia in 1996 when his first two novels, A White Merc with Fins and Rancid Aluminium, became bestsellers.

German culture called him back with Excavating Kafka, then Englanders and Huns, which was shortlisted for the Political Books of the Year awards in 2015.

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