This is an auction for A HISTORY OF BRITAIN by Simon Schama: Volume Two: 1603-1776: THE BRITISH WARS.

"Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict."

• Financial Times (UK)

"He remains a master storyteller, admirably and sceptically well read in current revisionist histories, and a wonderful guide to a new history of Britain."

• The Times

"A History of Britain, its text supplemented by wonderful illustrations, affords the rare joy of witnessing a scholar at the peak of his powers convincing the reader that he has a cracking good tale to tell and that he is loving every minute of the telling."

• Literary Review (UK)

"Popular history at its finest."

• Sunday Express (UK)

"Simon Schama's A History of Britain is far more than the book of the TV series... The book is far richer and fuller, covering a huge span so economically that there is room for plenty of arresting detail... It is the sort of vivid history that keeps you awake."

• Daily Mail (UK)

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His publications include Patriots and Liberators, which won the 1989 Yorkshire Post Award for Non-Fiction, Dead Certainties, Landscape Eyes, and the History of Britain series. Simon Schama was art critic for the New Yorker from 1995 to 1998, and was awarded a C.B.E. in the 2001 New Year's Honours List.

Large format (trade) BBC paperback 2003.

445 pages.

Illustrations throughout.

Very good condition.

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