A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement

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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. We enter the Crimean War; a war with the French and the goal of one day taking the Russian Frontier. The English Civil War was devastating and Oliver Cromwell certainly maintained power – seems he “got his due” a few years after his death when his skeletal remains were dug up and treated with the most disrespect. S. first editions are bound in smooth, quarter black cloth over grey, coarser cloth boards with head and foot bands and red-stained top edges.

King Henry II legacy is lasting in terms of organization and of the continuance of the British Commonwealth today. The chapter on the Blackdeath exposes how after the plague had concluded that the upper classes were in need of serfs to work the land – the serfs attempted to negotiate their position for land, money, and in some cases both as the human race had been decimated not by war; but, by disease – an interesting history to itself when normally the economic value of human life was clearly a point lost to the times. First, he describes the vast amount of immigrants that left the British Empire for Canada, to include the 100,00+ Loyalists that did not wish to live under the new Republic of the United States. The cultural commonality and vitality of English-speaking peoples animated Churchill throughout his life, from his Victorian youth in an ascendant British Empire to his twilight in the midst of the American century.

Printing major works by someone with Churchill s global stature in the 1950s would have been not only a commercial coup, but also a matter of reputational prestige which may help explain why the printer undertook this special binding.

Includes a page from the January 30th, 1965 editoin of the Financial Times with an article by Alan Hodge entitledThe Churchill Family and the State. His cabinet positions included First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and later Chancellor of the Exchequer.The first draft was completed just before the Second World War, but the work was not completed and published until after Churchill's second and final Premiership, nearly 20 years later.