History of Britain The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776

"[A] wonderful, exhilarating tale of the protracted birth of a nation. As with all Schama's books the grand political narrative sweeps along on a sequence of anecdotes, vignettes and brilliant set pieces: the wonderfully racy, darkly humorous account of the death of the lord protector Oliver Cromwell; the sardonic portrait of British life in Madras and Calcutta; the horrors of the killing fields of Glencoe and Culloden."Schama, Simon is the author of 'History of Britain The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776', published 2001 under ISBN 9780786867523 and ISBN 0786867523.