A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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King Henry II legacy is lasting in terms of organization and of the continuance of the British Commonwealth today. The identity of Horton is unknown to us, but we can speculate that he was well-regarded by senior staff at Kingsport Press; we have also encountered a specially bound presentation set of Churchill s The Second World War (also printed by Kingsport) gifted to Mr. Additionally, small time scoundrels presented investment idiocies such as improving the British jackasses by breeding them with those imported from Spain; one advantage taker had even gone so far (and succeeded) in advertising “….

In 3 years-time the work was finished when the supervisory committee then reviewed the final draft version – 12 persons on this committee completed the task within 9 months-time. He tells of the struggles and setbacks of the great men and the little men who carried the banner forward and the selfish men who dragged it back.A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the end of the Second Boer War (1902). As we see the beginning of the British Nation with the foundation of Julius Caesar in the year 55 BC (699 in the Roman Calendar) we begin the journey of the same great nation that had at best auspicious beginnings. Moving onto the history of Napoleon and the naval wars that ensued I came away with a new form of admiration made greater for Admiral Horatio Nelson and Sir Arthur Wellesley.

Enter the American Civil War – a whole book inside of Volume IV is dedicated to this important part of history. Work was interrupted in 1939 when the Second World War broke out and Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and became Prime Minister a year later. This set is an exception, the very best we have ever encountered, featuring truly fine volumes in truly fine dust jackets.Joan of Arc gets more than an honorable prose in a chapter dedicated to her, King Henry VI was merely lucky to have the strength of his Queen. A just about Fine set with a knock to the lower corner of volume three and the odd spot of foxing throughout.

Defeated in the July 1945 election, he was Leader of the Opposition until re-elected Prime Minister in 1951. Reading reports of the last decade of his life, one is struck by the central interest this history represented in his final years, and how rapidly he sank into decline and depression after the final volume was published.

Parallel reading Churchill's A History of the English-speaking Peoples and Simon Schama's A History of Britain is an interesting process. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Founded by bankers who had financed the Clinchfield Railway and the Kingsport town site, Kingsport Press became "an integral component in fulfilling the interlocking concept of industry upon which Kingsport s founders created the planned industrial community" and "served as a catalyst for the development and expansion of related industries such as Mead Paper Company. Not quite sure the adjective ‘nerd’ pertains to me (I’m not going to dismiss it for lack of another word) but I have a difficult time reading history without knowing where the action is taking place. H. Plumb wrote: "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.