The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback
Robert Tombs is Emeritus Professor of French History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. Most of his writing and teaching has been on French and European history and on Franco-British relations, for which he was awarded the Palmes Academiques by the French government. Since his foray into English history, with the publication of The English and Their History in 2014, he has become a frequent commentator on contemporary issues, and is co-editor of the pro-Brexit academic website Briefings for Britain.
A work of supreme intelligence ... No history published this year
has been of such resounding importance to contemporary debates.
Tombs, who is both fearless and non-partisan, deserves to be
rewarded with a life peerage for this book
*Observer*
Learned, pithy and punchy, with a laudable sense of narrative sweep
and a bracing willingness to offer bold judgments, [Tombs's] survey
is a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard
history for years to come
*Sunday Times*
Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit ...
[a] vast and delightful book
*The Times*
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