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A Shortened History of England

by George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1942

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Tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Vikings, the Norman conquest, the first Elizabethan age and foundation of the Indian Empire to World War I and the setting up of the League of Nations.

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epic · 608 pages

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