About this title: 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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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cassell, London
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780304925032ISBN:0304925039
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. Crease to the bottom cover near the bottom and side edges. Corner bumping and general wear to the covers. Clean text and a good reading copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co., New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 402 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. This is vol 3 of a set "The Age of Revolution" Very solid tight has some stains on cover Minor bumps but overall very good read more
Description: Acceptable. Acceptable condition-only fair condition with signs of extensive handling and use. Mass Market pb. 1957 Mass Market pb. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I have rarely seen a book of history so deeply personal and analytical at the same time. By reading this 4-volume book, one gets a glimpse of Winston Churchill's intricate thinking pattern. As one of craftiest politicians of the 20th Century, he led a deeply pacifist British public to rise up against the Nazi's; he predicted America's downfall in Vietnam; he also infamously forced America into WWI at the cost of more than one thousand civilian lives aboard RMS Lusitania.
His mastery shines through in this book. He eloquently defended every British action from Burgundy to India, as if every aggression was Britain's manifest destiny. Yet, a profound perspective of history permeates this book. This book is a history of heroes, English-speaking heroes who created the Magna Carta, those who fought and triumphed the Boer War, and those who built the Second Empire at the heel of English defeat in the First. Neither did he hesitate to defend the Victorian decadence of Britain - even the beginning of the end can be polished to shine!
After reading this book, you can't help but wonder what kind of people deserve such a leader- the kind of leader who is relentlessly pragmatic, ruthlessly indifferent to human conditions and yet charismatic enough to save an empire from the cusp of an apocalyptic destruction."
"A rather readable "history" by Churchill. I found it enjoyable enough, but wonder if the information Churchill presents is in line with current thinking about Euporean history? Since this was my fist read about European history I feel like it was a good start as the text was enjoyable."
"Book #1: The Birth of Britain Good book. Tell's briefly the story of each monarch and/or the nobles and their reign from the time when Cesaer invaded England to Richard III. I give it 4 stars.
Book #2: The New World This book was good, but, a little harder read than #1. Covers from approx 1500 to the civil war of 1688. I give it 3 stars.
Book #3: The age of Revolution I had somewhat of a hard time with this volume. It was good though. I liked the English take on the American Revolution. This book covered the 'world war' (from 1688 to the final fall of Napoleon). This includes the civil war of 1688, the war on the continent (Louis XIV), American Revolution, French Revolution, and both Napoleon wars to Waterloo. I give it 3 stars.
Book #4: The Great Democracies I thought this would be the most boring of the set. It was not. It answered many questions and explained some of the things that happened that we studied in history that were only vaguely mentioned.
The set as a whole is between 3 and 4. I gave it three because of the length."
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