Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, purported ancestors of the Irish... Zobraziť viac
The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England. Europe is an astonishingly successful place... Zobraziť viac
The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall... Zobraziť viac
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It s Zobraziť viac
The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England. Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent... Zobraziť viac
