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England-begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor-is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth.
This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented-yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America's War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England's break from the EU. We discover:
The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life-offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today's headlines. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.
James Hawes published six novels before turning his storytelling gifts to nonfiction. His previous two shortest histories, The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England, have sold more than half a million copies around the world. Hawes has known Ireland since the 1970s, lectured for two years at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (where the IRA tried to recruit him), and is married to an Irishwoman.
