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  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition by Churchill, Sir Winston S.; Lee, Christopher;

    Series: Bloomsbury Revelations;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 26 August 2021
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350176300
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages632 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 1052 g
    • Language English
    • 232

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    '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.

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    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

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