- 1985 edition. 568 pages
- Published by Guild Publishing / Book Club Associates, London
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Red boards
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Small ex Libris owner stamp on first page.
A History of Britain and The British People, Volume Two. The British Oceanic Expansion. With a chapter by Professor John Kenyon. Rare book. Indexed and Illustrated.
'I have written for both young and old, for those who know a little of the British past and for those who know scarcely anything at all. My aim has been to set down in a small compass all the essential things a child or adult should know who wants to understand our history. And to do so in a book which can be read at school or by the fireside, on a journey or in bed, and leave the reader with a clearer impression of how our institutions, beliefs and ideas came to be what they are.'
This book opens with one of the last great battles of the Middle Ages - the victory of Henry V's tiny army over the French at Agincourt. It ends almost exactly four hundred years later, on a field not very far away, when another outnumbered British force won an equally famous victory at Waterloo.
The period between the two saw Britain grow from a minor power on the fringes of European civilisation into the most influential nation in the world and, as John Byng put it, ' the wonder and balance of the universe.' The formation and expansion of the British nation which allowed that transformation to take place is the story of this second volume of Sir Arthur Bryant's remarkable distillation of her history.
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