{"product_id":"our-island-story-9781780228921","title":"Our Island Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' \u003cb\u003eAntonia Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' \u003cb\u003eDavid Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Educational Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntertaining, accessible and exciting, it puts people and events in context and makes them live again * Good Book Guide *","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084323496279,"sku":"9781780228921","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780228921.jpg?v=1725551772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-island-story-9781780228921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}