A Short History of the English People - Vol II John Richard Green From
the age of the Puritans in 1583 to the outbreak of the European War,
1914. Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe
Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its
full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our
island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the
generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings
and battles