A Shortened History of England (Pelican)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: December 9, 1976
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780140204438
First sentence: IT is not my purpose to describe pre-insular Britain and the great geologic changes, the volcanoes, the rise and fall of mountains, the tropical swamps in which the coal forest grew, or the industrious building of the chalk down under the sea.