History of England (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) e-bog

Oman wrote this 1895 history out of a conviction, as he writes in his introduction, &quote;that there may still be room for a single-volume history . . . which neither cramps the earlier annals of our island . . . nor expands the last two centuries into an unmanageable bulk.&quote; The New York Times called his effort &quote;extremely satisfactory.&quote;