Small Island - Philip Parker

Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past. Engrossing' INDEPENDENT___________In 878 the borders of Alfred the Great's Wessex were confined to a small patch of marshland in Somerset. This was Britain.Four centuries later, and the country straddled the English Channel, embracing much of what we now know as France.Six hundred years later,... Zobrazit více