Good book about British History, easy enough to dip in and out and perfect if you just want a quick brush up on your British history.

Filled with great facts and thoroughly researched this book weaves together the facts to turn an interesting tale of a wonderful topic into a must read.

If you have ever wanted a brief illustrated guide to understand England's complex history, this is the book for you! This is perfect for anyone who is studying English rulers in high school or college. This is the perfect coffee table book.

a slim fact filled read great for beginners and interesting for more advanced history readers and a good read overall.

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A very good overview of England history. The book is well documented and illustrated. The book can be used by high school and college students.

The slim volume History of England takes one through early invasions through the seven houses: Normandy, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor. Book provides a brief refresher of history using a bullet list with brief descriptions of persons and events.

This book is a comprehensive overview but it definitely doesn't delve into the History of England in depth. I think you could probably learn about the same amount from a quick Wiki search. Just okay.

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I think that the inherent problem I have with this book is understanding who the intended audience and market is. Using a bullet point format and deriving its source material wholly from Wikipedia (a subject of concern in itself which I will not enter into a discussion on here) it covers the history of England predominantly through its monarchs and thereafter there are biographies of Prime Ministers and military leaders. This high level approach may give you in chronological terms a basic understanding of the past that you can then build on with subsequent reading and be an adjutant to other source material but on its own it can feel a little underwhelming . Once completed the reader may feel that perhaps their time could have been better spent and deployed on reading like I did when I was at school the works of someone like Geoffrey Trease.

Anyway everything seems to have been covered (although the biographical details of John Mayor were omitted) and the accompanying photos and paintings supported the information. Ultimately although the publisher's description states that this "will appeal to the general reader searching for concise and informative history books" I fear that they may well bypass this and go directly to Wikipedia themselves. I suppose to be generous if it gets just one person interested in history and provokes a search for further knowledge then it can not be such a bad thing.

I always enjoy a book on the history of my favorite country. It was fact filled and a good read overall.

This book was...dry. Done in a bullet point, quick list style, I felt like some of the most interesting turning points and people were skimmed over. Take Matilda of Flanders for example, a woman who gave her husband ten children with many more pregnancies. She was considered a great adviser to him, a lady of quick wit, and helped him cement his hold over foreign castles. She had one sentence in the book ascribed to her. Julius Cesar’s desire but subsequent failure to gain ground in England was another one sentence blurb that is simply too important to condense so.
I guess this book’s rating will be subjective per reader and the reader’s objective. If you’re looking for a quick summation of everything between England’s birth to current day, a jumping off point for further and deeper research, this is a great way to go. If you’re looking to read the stories of the founders, failures, and fantastical feats that brought us to the England we know today you’d be better served watching an episode of “Secrets of Great British Castles.”

I'm not really sure about a book that tells the history of England in bullet points. While it gives a concise history and overview over some of the most important characters in England's history, it cannot be used as a real reference book due to the format (at least not in my opinion) and it doesn't really give any more information than I could gather from wikipedia or skim reading a "normal" history book.

Unfortunately, this is not a book, but a collection of bullet points that is perhaps great for someone trying to brush up on knowledge, but not in any way stimulating reading. This should be called the Kings of England and the Stuff They Did.... it would be more fair, this gives no nuance or insight into the daily lives of the people who lived in England, but reads like a high school textbook outline.

I have read the previous book, which covered the Americas and Caribbean.

This book would be of most use to those with little to no knowledge of English history or if you just need a list of salient points to refer to. There is little mention of Scotland and Wales (Yes I know its' about England but we are neighbours and feature quite heavily during certain periods of history!)

The content is disclosed as having been copied from Wikipedia and Google so believe its contents at your own peril!

It's a brief overview of English literature, as you no doubt surmised from the title and title description. While it's helpful as a summary for those curious about the bare-bones bullet-point details, it should not be considered particularly in-depth.

This is my second book compiled by Jack J. Kanski and as I really enjoyed the first one, I thought I would feel the same about this one. That previous book was entitled "History of the Americas and Caribbean" and I thought it perfectly balanced the correct amount information without overwhelming the reader. I realise that this is a concise history title but it enables you to learn the basics and you can further your knowledge on certain parts of the book that particularly interested you, if you so wish.

"History of England" is the ideal introduction to English history. just as the previous book was for the Americas and Caribbean. Obviously, the fact that this is about the history England attracted me to reading it even more than the first one did, having lived in the UK all of my life.

I would say that this succinct title would be particularly useful for those who are new to English history or even for bigger kids. If you are looking for something that looks at the history of the country in detail or in-depth, I would suggest looking for a more substantial book that it more suited to your needs.

All in all, another enjoyable read from Kanski. I thought it was worth mentioning that the author discloses some important information in the introduction - that the content has been copied from Wikipedia and Google. This may affect its accuracy. This is also why I use the word "compile" at the beginning of this review as that is really what Kanski is doing.

Many thanks to Matador for an ARC. I was not required to post a review and all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

This is a very concise summary of the history of England. Be aware that the content is based on Wikipedia and Google (which is fully disclosed at the beginning of the book); so there is no original analysis or assessment of England. Nevertheless, the content included provides a good overview.

Very brief and succinct. A good guide for those unfamiliar with British history but maybe disappointing to anyone else. The format is almost like a PowerPoint presentation where information is presented in sentence form with little detail and Wikipedia like pictures. It would be helpful up to a point but lacks enough detail for a proper Citation for a paper and doesn't provide enough detail for someone looking for more information on a historical subject