The Story of Early Britain (The Story of the Nations)

xviii, 382 pp. Includes fold-out map. CONTENTS: Preface; Britain before the Romans; Caesar in Britain (First Expedition); Caesar in Britain (Second Expedition); Britain and the Successors of Caesar; Caractacus; Boadicea; Agricola in Command; The Roman Walls; The Tyrants; The English Conquest; The First Four Bretwaldas (Elle, Ceawlin, Ethelbert, Redwald); The Conversion of England; The Northumbrian Bretwaldas; The Supremacy of Mercia; Caedmon, Bede, and Cuthbert; The English People; Wessex and Egbert; The Successors of Egbert, and the Danes; Alfred, the Man of War; Alfred, the Man of Peace; Edward the Elder, and Athelstan; Edmund I and Edred; Dunstan; Edward (The Martyr) and Ethelred the Unready; Ethelred and Sweyn; The Vengeance for St. Brice's Day; Canute; The Sons of Canute; Edward the Confessor; The Supremacy of Harold; William of Normandy; The Accession of Harold and the Campaign in the North; The Last Struggle; Index.