The Story of England [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In this reissue I have tried to correct slips and errors of all kinds pointed out by reviewers and by kindly correspondents, to whom I should like to express my thanks. I have also tried to adapt the last chapters to a perspective of i960, rather than of 1950. This has made possible a longer and better balanced account of the last war and of the events immediately following it. But I have not attempted an account or assessment of more recent events, such as the Suez crisis, over which the dust of controversy still hangs so thick that a coherent and unchallengeable statement of the facts cannot yet be formulated, and still less a considered opinion. To one large class of private critics I have made, I fear, no concession at all. This is the Story of England and not of Britain, and must remain so. If this seems to result in the treatment of Scottish affairs as trivial and subsidiary, the balance can only be redressed elsewhere, in a separate Story of Scodand. Stowe, William McElwee March 1961