A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, purported ancestors of the Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish and Bretons. Yet they have never been identified with any one land, or with any one history or language. Simon Jenkins argues compellingly that the 'Celts' is a misleading concept, bundling together quite distinct peoples. The word keltoi first appears in The Celts - Simon Jenkins od authora Simon Jenkins a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.