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Book SynopsisSir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Christopher Lee is a British writer, historian and broadcaster. A former BBC defence and foreign affairs correspondent and Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History and sometime Gomes lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, he is author or editor of 26 books and is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy This Sceptred Isle. His recent books include the three accompanying volumes of This Sceptred Isle and in 2011 he published the single-volume abridgment of Winston Churchill's four-volume A History of the English-Speakin
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
