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  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I by Churchill, Sir Winston S.;

    The Birth of Britain

    Series: Bloomsbury Revelations;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 29 January 2015
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472585240
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages344 pages
    • Size 232x156x26 mm
    • Weight 544 g
    • Language English
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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 four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesar's invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, 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.

    The first volume - The Birth of Britain - tells the story of the formation of the British state, from the arrival of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire through the invasions of the Vikings and the Normans, the signing of the Magna Carta and establishment of the mother of parliaments to the War of the Roses.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Maps and Genealogical Tables
    Book I: The Island Race
    1. Britannia
    2. Subjugation
    3. The Roman Province
    4. The Lost Island
    5. England
    6. The Vikings
    7. Alfred the Great
    8. The Saxon Dusk
    Book II: The Making of the Nation
    1. The Norman Invasion
    2. William the Conqueror
    3. Growth and Turmoil
    4. Henry Plantagenet
    5. The English Common Law
    6. Coeur de Lion
    7. Magna Carta
    8. On the Anvil
    9. The Mother of Parliaments
    10. King Edward I
    11. Bannockburn
    12. Scotland and Ireland
    13. The Long-Bow
    14. The Black Death
    Book III: The End of the Feudal Age
    1. King Richard II and the Social Revolt
    2. The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke
    3. The Empire of Henry V
    4. Joan of Arc
    5. York and Lancaster
    6. The Wars of the Roses
    7. The Adventures of Edward IV
    8. Richard III
    Index

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