A History Of The English Speaking Peoples Since 1900

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297865242
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 written by Andrew Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century. Churchill wrote: 'Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell. Knowledge of the trials and struggles is necessary to all who would comprehend the problems, perils, challenges, and opportunities which confront us today 'It is in the hope that contemplation of the trials and tribulations of our forefathers may not only fortify the English-speaking peoples of today, but also play some small part in uniting the whole world, that I present this account.' As the greatest of all the trials and tribulations of the English-speaking peoples took place in the twentieth century, Roberts' book covers the four world-historical struggles in which the English-speaking peoples have been engaged - the wars against German Nationalism, Axis Fascism, Soviet Communism and now the War against Terror. But just as Churchill did in his four volumes, Roberts also deals with the cultural, social and political history of the English global diaspora.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831236
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Churchill's Profession written by Peter Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill's monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring 'special relationship' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061874493
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters and Commanders written by Andrew Roberts and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterly. . . . Roberts’s portrait of the relationship between the four men who made Allied strategy through the war years is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." —Max Hastings, The New York Review of Books An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, "Britain's finest contemporary military historian" (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.

Author : Richard W. Bailey
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019517934X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking American written by Richard W. Bailey and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the history and continuing evolution of American English, from the 16th century to the present, to celebrate the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of our language. By the author of Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375754407
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Republic written by Winston Churchill and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the previously published four-volume, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples," as well as essays and speeches, to present the British statesman's interpretation of American history.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472585569
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume III written by Winston Churchill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Cassell, 1956.

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the English Working Class written by Edward Palmer Thompson and published by IICA. This book was released on 1964 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107569877
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Imperialism written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Academic
ISBN 13 : 1472585496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II written by Winston Churchill and published by Bloomsbury USA Academic. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Cassell, 1956.

Author : Sir Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350176303
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition written by Sir Winston S. Churchill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.