A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 August 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350042940
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages632 pages
- Size 234x158x36 mm
- Weight 960 g
- Language English 232
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Long description:
'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.' The Daily Telegraph
Spanning Caesar's invasion of Britain to the birth of the twentieth century, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston S. Churchill's most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history, and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history.
This one-volume abridged edition of Churchill's major work makes accessible to readers the full sweep of his magisterial chronicle of the history of Britain. It combines Churchill's intriguing, closely observed biographical profiles of a succession of leaders - including Alfred the Great, Henry Plantagenet, Henry V, Richard III, Charles I, William Pitt and Queen Victoria - with the key events and developments that were to shape the course of history. Restored to this edition is the abridged version of the American history from the individual volumes, covering the War of American Independence and the American Civil War, each introduced by the editor.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Editor's Note
1. Britannia
2. The Lost Island
3. Anglo-Saxon England
4. The Vikings
5. Alfred the Great
6. The Saxon Dusk
7. The Norman Invasion
8. Growth Amid Turmoil
9. Henry Plantagenet
10. Richard, Coeur de Lion
11. Magna Carta
12. The Mother of Parliaments
13. King Edward I
14. Bannockburn
15. Scotland and Ireland
16. The Long-Bow
17. Social Revolt
18. Henry Bolingbroke and Henry V
19. Henry VI and the Wars of the Roses
20. Edward IV
21. Richard III
22. The Round World
23. King Henry VIII
24. The Break with Rome
25. The Protestant Struggle
26. Gloriana
27. The United Crowns
28. Charles I and the Personal Rule
29. The Revolt of Parliament
30. The Axe Falls
31. The Restoration
32. The Popish Plot
33. The Bloodless Revolution
34. William of Orange
35. The War of the Spanish Succession
36. The Last of the Stuarts
37. The House of Hanover
38. Pitt the Elder
39. The Quarrel with America
40. The Indian Empire
41. Pitt the Younger
42. The Napoleonic Wars
43. The Victory Peace
44. Reform and Free Trade
45. The Crimean War
46. The Era of Emigration
47. The Rise of Germany
48. The Fin de Siecle
49. The South African War
Appendix
Index
