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1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Series |
The History of the English-Speaking Peoples ; v. 2 |
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History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; Contents; Book IV: Renaissance and Reformation; I. The Round World; II. The Tudor Dynasty; III. King Henry VIII; IV. Cardinal Wolsey; V. The Break with Rome; VI. The End of the Monasteries; VII. The Protestant Struggle; VIII. Good Queen Bess; IX. The Spanish Armada; X. Gloriana; Book V: The Civil War; I. The United Crowns; II. The Mayflower; III. Charles I and Buckingham; IV. The Personal Rule; V. The Revolt of Parliament; VI. The Great Rebellion; VII. Marston Moor and Naseby; VIII. The Axe Falls; Book VI: The Restoration |
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I. The English RepublicII. The Lord Protector; III. The Restoration; IV. The Merry Monarch; V. The Popish Plot; VI. Whig and Tory; VII. The Catholic King; VIII. The Revolution of 1688; Maps and Genealogical Table |
| Summary |
The second volume of the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister's breathtaking history of Britain continues with the growth of monarchy and religious conflict. In the "wilderness" years after Winston S. Churchill unflinchingly guided his country through World War II, he turned his masterful hand to an exhaustive history of the country he loved above all else. And the world discovered that this brilliant military strategist was an equally brilliant storyteller. In 1953, the great man was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." This second of four volumes exploring the history of this great nation explores the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the power struggles of the Tudor and Stuart families, the growth of the monarchy, the Protestant Reformation, England's Civil War, and the discovery of the Americas. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples remains one of the most compelling and vivid works of history ever written. "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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History.
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780795330445 |
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0795330448 |
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