Altogether, this is a sweeping, fast-moving story, smoothly readable, broader in scope than many one-volume histories of the war.

But he also brings to his subject a vitality that can't be matched, as far as I know, in any of the professional one-volume histories.

His book Lone Star Rising has been called "the best one-volume history of the Texas revolution yet written".

This one-volume history of the Civil War "may actually be the best ever published.

"In my judgment, this is the best one-volume history of the United States ever written."

His one-volume history of art has long been standard reading for the student of the subject.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning one-volume history of the war.

In 1952 he published Australia, a one-volume general history of Australia which became a standard work for some years.

"Gettysburg" is the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War.

There is no published one-volume history of Kingsway Hall.