The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chaptersMasterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the AngloSaxons to the present Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first fulllength account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric dreamtime through to the present day.As ambitious as it is successful . . . Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, a vast and delightful book Ben MacIntyre, The Times, Books of the YearA stupendous achievement ... a story of a people we cant fail to recognize stoical, brave, drunken, bloodyminded, violent, undeferential, yet paradoxically lawabiding ... I found myself gripped Daniel Hannan, SpectatorOriginal and enormously readable, this brilliant, hugely engaging work has a sly wit and insouciance that are of themselves rather English Sinclair MacKay, Daily Telegraph

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