Author: Longmate, Norman,
Title: DEFENDING THE ISLAND - Caesar to the Armada.
Description: Hutchinson, London, 1989, 1st edn., x, 532pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, in a blend of military, social and diplomatic history an account of the defence of Great Britain by the Celtic tribes against the Romans through the dark ages, the Saxon and Viking invasions, the Norman conquest and the Plantagenet and Tudor periods culminating in the resistance to the Armada, lightly rubbed at tips, light foxing to upper edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, some creasing lower panel, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: british history caesar romans celtic saxon viking norman plantagenet tudor hastings bosworth french spanish armada


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