With a verve and liveliness worthy of a novelist, American writer MARY PLATT PARMELE (1843-1911) put her unique stamp on world history with her six-volume series of clever, concise histories, condensed tales of the world's great nations that encompassed the essential facts necessary for appreciating the state of the world as she saw it.

This series includes:  A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland; A Short History of France; A Short History of Germany; A Short History of Russia; A Short History of Spain; and A Short History of Rome and Italy.

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