Houghton Mifflin, 1969. — 296 p. — ISBN 978-0395065792, 0395065798.
Traces the history of Great Britain from the Stone Age to the signing of the Magna Carta during the reign of King John in 1215
Before the RomansThe British Isles
The Beaker folk
The coming of the Celts
Julius Caesar
Roman BritainThe Roman conquest
The Northern limit
The Inner limit
The Romans leave
The coming of the SaxonsThe Celtic retreat
The Celtic priests
Missionary from the South
The second Roman conquest
The coming of the VikingsEnglish culture
The rise of Mercia
The northern fury
The rise of Wessex
The Saxon triumphAlfred The Great
Across the ocean
The son of Alfred
The grandson of Alfred
The Saxon failureDunstan and conciliation
Ethelred and confusion
The second Danish conquest
Canute
The final ReignEdward the confessor
William the bastard
Macbeth the usurper
Harold of Wessex
The Norman conquestThe battle of Stamford Bridge
The battle of Hastings
The last of the Saxons
The first of the Normans
The sons of WilliamThe succession
Adventure in the East
The second William
The young brother
Civil WarThe succession again
Stephen versus Matilda
Chaos
Plantagenet
The Angevin EmpireThe beginning of fusion
The Becket affair
Expansion
Family tragedy
The sons of HenryThe lion-heart
Richard and John
Arthur and John
The Pope and John
Epilogue
The Magna Carta