In the summer of 1914, not quite seventeen-year-old Edward applies to the Royal Flying Corps to train as a pilot and soon finds himself in the thick of the bitter and disillusioning war.
Covers political and religious development as well as economic, social and intellectual history during the reign of the Stuarts in England from 1603-1714.
Traces the history of the Anglo-Saxon civilization in England from the 5th to the 11th centuries as revealed by archaelogists' excavations and laboratory tests.