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A rare gift for vision, a sense of drama, a genius for the right word, an imaginative sense of people and story are here applied to the beginnings of a great people. Winston Churchill was endowed with a sense of history- and this is an ambitious project into which he has poured his great gifts. 'Begun in 1939, now finished, to be issued in four volumes over the next three years, this will be for the average reader the definitive history; for the student an inspiration for further study. For Sir Winston makes even his earliest period, in the dawn of the island's checkered history, seem alive. One goes through successive invasions, conquests, struggles for power with an awareness of the contribution each invader, each conqueror made to the building of a nation. Romans, Danes, Normans, each in turn became part of the life stream. Men advanced the island's development- or threw it back for long periods. Great figures and events took place on the stage of history. The things that characterize the English speaking race today put down roots that survived. Churchill does not hesitate to illumine the past through contrast and comparison with the present. He makes his story a living, growing thing. His human beings stand out against their times- good and evil as they may be. He reinterprets old legends, retaining much we learned in childhood, but throwing new light upon it. Exciting and revealing reading, this provides the background we need for other reading-fact and fiction, and leaves us with eager anticipation for the volumes to come. (Kirkus Reviews)
Described by A J P Taylor as 'one of the wisest, most exciting works of history ever written', this great work first appeared in four volumes in the 1950s. Helped by several distinguished academic historians, Churchill, with characteristic flair and insight, traced the history of the English-speaking peoples over 2000 years, from the days of Julius Caesar and Boadicea to the deaths of Queen Victoria and Cecil Rhodes. Skilfully reducing these four volumes to one, Christopher Lee has succeeded in preserving the splendid flavour of the original. (Kirkus UK)
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2000 years of British history told by one of the greatest figures of that history. New one volume abridgement, now at an unbeatable price. From Boadicea to Victoria.
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A rare gift for vision, a sense of drama, a genius for the right word, an imaginative sense of people and story are here applied to the beginnings of a great people. Winston Churchill was endowed with a sense of history- and this is an ambitious project into which he has poured his great gifts. 'Begun in 1939, now finished, to be issued in four volumes over the next three years, this will be for the average reader the definitive history; for the student an inspiration for further study. For Sir Winston makes even his earliest period, in the dawn of the island's checkered history, seem alive. One goes through successive invasions, conquests, struggles for power with an awareness of the contribution each invader, each conqueror made to the building of a nation. Romans, Danes, Normans, each in turn became part of the life stream. Men advanced the island's development- or threw it back for long periods. Great figures and events took place on the stage of history. The things that characterize the English speaking race today put down roots that survived. Churchill does not hesitate to illumine the past through contrast and comparison with the present. He makes his story a living, growing thing. His human beings stand out against their times- good and evil as they may be. He reinterprets old legends, retaining much we learned in childhood, but throwing new light upon it. Exciting and revealing reading, this provides the background we need for other reading-fact and fiction, and leaves us with eager anticipation for the volumes to come. (Kirkus Reviews)
Described by A J P Taylor as 'one of the wisest, most exciting works of history ever written', this great work first appeared in four volumes in the 1950s. Helped by several distinguished academic historians, Churchill, with characteristic flair and insight, traced the history of the English-speaking peoples over 2000 years, from the days of Julius Caesar and Boadicea to the deaths of Queen Victoria and Cecil Rhodes. Skilfully reducing these four volumes to one, Christopher Lee has succeeded in preserving the splendid flavour of the original. (Kirkus UK)
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2000 years of British history told by one of the greatest figures of that history. New one volume abridgement, now at an unbeatable price. From Boadicea to Victoria.
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- Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive by Celia Sandys on 6 pages
- Churchill: The Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 by Victor Feske on page 199, and Back Matter
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