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This article focuses on the books "A Shorter History of England," and "Cromwell," by Hilaire Belloc. According to the author, Belloc's historical writings have usually been dismissed as literary exercises. It is true that he can be convicted of frequent inaccuracies, and that he has a habit of clinging to his prejudices in the face of all the evidence-notably in his insistence that the dominant strain in the English racial inheritance is that of the Romanized Celts, not the Anglo-Saxon. His activities as essayist, novelist, poet, politician, and student of military strategy have been far too varied to enable him to devote much time to research. |
