Book Report: Our Island Story

Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls by H.E Marshall(1905)

Book Review/Report

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 Our Island Story is half-fiction and half-true. It starts from the time the Romans invaded Britain, and ends at the time when the U.K annexed New Zealand. The book talks about how Henry V managed to get the throne of France, and the signing of the Magna Charta ("Great Charter") by King John "Lackland" Plantagenet. The author makes the stories interesting by overlapping stories, like "The Siege of Delhi" and "The Pipes at Lucknow"(chapters 106/107). It also talks about the warrior queen Boadicea, who would die rather than submit(chapter 5). The Romans thought that they could defeat Boadicea because she was a woman, but it took a long fight to do so. This book is a very good book.

Rating: 99.732/100 Status: READ