A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV : The Great Democracies Paperback / softback

by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill

Part of the Bloomsbury Revelations series

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"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues â€” 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 four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesarâ€™s invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston Churchillâ€™s most magnificent literary works.

Begun during Churchillâ€™s â€˜wilderness yearsâ€™ 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. The Great Democracies is the fourth and final volume of Churchillâ€™s history.

Here, Churchill reaches the modern era. For Britain, this was the high Victorian era of Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, an age of free trade and imperialism as the British spread to Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Meanwhile the fledgling republic in America endured the great crisis of the Civil War to take its first steps on the road to becoming the world superpower that endures to this day.