Title: Fun and easy read
Product review: This book examines the identity of a people that everyone seems to know and have an opinion on but whose history is a bit more complex than that. It's an interesting book in a curious way, and Paxman writes it with ease. He takes us through the historical opinions of foreign travellers and the difficulty the English have had with the 'fall of the Empire'. It is full of little details that one would never think had such an impact. I found it most interesting the notions the English have about themselves had how some if not most of the have little to do with reality. And Europeans accuse the Americans of not understanding that the States may not be 'the land of the free'. The English are just as guilty of dreaming of the beautiful countryside when most live in cities that may not be aesthetically pleasing. If the book had been even more recent I hope that Paxman would have tried to explain the incomprehensible behaviour of English football fans this summer.
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