Grattan’s narrative begins with Julius Caesar’s campaigns among the Belgae, Batavians and Frisians and the first dikes against the sea. It follows the Low Countries through the Franks, the counts of Holland, the Burgundian dukes and Habsburg rule to the great revolt against Philip II and the death of Sir Philip Sidney at Zutphen. Julian Hawthorne brings the story into the nineteenth century.
A readable one-volume history of the Dutch for travellers and general readers. Download the free EPUB.