Title: 1 star only because Amazon won't let me give it zero stars!
Review: 1100 pages of pain!About 3 years ago I purchased two histories of Britain intent on reading them in concert to get a good compare and contrast. One was Simon Schama's three-volume History of Britain. The other was this one. I finished Schama's work in about a month and a half. I finished this one yesterday.The idea that Davies' is doing a history of the "Isles" is nonsense. Ireland gets the shaft from him most of the work, not that I really cared since it would have just made the whole thing longer!"The Isles" is dull and sloppily put together. At times it appears as if there was no proofreader, much less any editor. I would agree that this book is boring, but that would give boring books a bad name!About two-thirds of the way through, I determined I was going to finish if for any other reason than to not consider the previous reading time a waste of effort. My advice is to pick up Schama's great work and leave this at the bookstore!
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