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Informationen zum Autor Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States. Christopher Lee (born 1941) is a British writer, historian and broadcaster. A former BBC defence and foreign affairs correspondent and Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History and sometime Gomes lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he is author or editor of 26 books and is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy This Sceptred Isle , which recounts the history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria, the 20th century and the British Empire. His recent books include the three accompanying volumes of This Sceptred Isle. In 2011 he published a single-volume abridgment of Winston Churchill's four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Zusammenfassung '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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionEditor's Note1. Britannia2. The Lost Island3. Anglo-Saxon England4. The Vikings5. Alfred the Great6. The Saxon Dusk7. The Norman Invasion8. Growth Amid Turmoil9. Henry Plantagenet10. Richard, Coeur de Lion11. Magna Carta12. The Mother of Parliaments13. King Edward I14. Bannockburn15. Scotland and Ireland16. The Long-Bow17. Social Revolt18. Henry Bolingbroke and Henry V19. Henry VI and the Wars of the Roses20. Edward IV21. Richard III22. The Round World23. King Henry VIII24. The Break with Rome25. The Protestant Struggle26. Gloriana27. The United Crowns28. Charles I and the Personal Rule29. The Revolt of Parliament30. The Axe Falls31. The Restoration32. The Popish Plot33. The Bloodless Revolution34. William of Orange35. The War of the Spanish Succession36. The Last of the Stuarts37. The House of Hanover38. Pitt the Elder39. The Quarrel with America40. The Indian Empire41. Pitt the Younger42. The Napoleonic Wars43. The Victory Peace44. Reform and Free Trade45. The Crimean War46. The Era of Emigration47. The Rise of Germany48. The Fin de Siecle49. The South African WarAppendixIndex...
