The Anglo-Saxons

This book was a real disappointment.  Firstly it is a word for word copy of a chapter from the Oxford History of Britain and not a new one either but from the '80's. This means that the book is straight history without any discussion of the points of conflict between various historians. The pointing out of current ideas and  what is "new" thinking has been the best part of the series so far, this book has none of that. I was aware of much of the history admittedly only in general, but the Danegold, Offa  and the spread of Christianity into England are well documented elsewhere. In short, this was a reasonable 75 page introduction to the era but readers could save some money and buy the original book as several of the chapters appear as separate volumes in this series.