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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies
by Winston, Sir Churchill
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. Clement Stone (1983-10)
ISBN: 0396082742
EAN: 9780396082743
Dewy Decimal #: 941
Paperback
SKU: 40074
Condition: New
Comments: 4 GREAT HARDCOVER BOOKS, THE COMPLETE SET OF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES! Dodd, Mead, 1957-1962. Early print of 1st edition. HARDCOVER BOOKS WITH GILT LETTERING AND WITH GREAT DUST JACKETS ARE NEW! VOLUME 1, 2, 3, 4. A TERRIFIC GIFT SET! Fast ship with tracking number. AIRMAIL.
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Customer Reviews
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The 19th Century: A Lively Trip
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-12-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had been meaning to read this book for a number of years. It has sat in my book shelf collecting dust. The pity is that I did not read it sooner.Churchill provides a lively and readable account of the great democracies of the 19 th Century. He starts with the years following the Napoleonic Wars and concludes with the Boer War. In between, he covers the American Civil War in some detail as well as progress in the other English speaking nations of Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. He also touches on other issues in Europe, particularly the rise of Germany under Bismarck. I can thoroughly recommend this book to the reader of general history. It has whetted my appetite to go back and read the earlier volumes. If they should be half as good as this one, it will be a pleasant journey.
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An okay conclusion to an okay series
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-07-27
1 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book concludes Churchill's four-volume history of England and to a lesser extent, the U.S. (and to a much lesser extent, Canada, South Africa and Australia). Although generally good, at times Churchill's pro-English biases shine through. In a way, the whole set seems to be the story of a country growing up and the end is kind of a happy arrival in adulthood. It is interesting to read an "outsider's" view of American history, however.
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