Graham Robb is the author of Victor Hugo: A Biography and many other books. His newest, The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History, from 500 Million BC to the Next Election, will be published ...
In his brilliant 2007 book, The Discovery of France , British author Graham Robb upended the official French histories that depict a single Republic, language and citizenry by exploring the ...
“No creature or nation lives life in chronological order,” historian Robb (France) observes in this idiosyncratic account of his native Britain. Moving backward and forward in time, often jumping ...