A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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I knew that in this first of four Volumes it would not only set the tone for the remainder of the other three – I wanted to ensure I was able to capture the essence of this important History of a nation that has done more good for mankind than harm when one looks at the accomplishments of structure to locations of the many that took the challenge to accomplish, work, study, and learn long before my own existence came into being. Each volume is housed in an undecorated, heavy card slipcase covered in the same pale blue paper as the endpapers. 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. Whatever the critics may say, the work was immensely popular and remains of interest to readers, judging by a robust number of successive reprints. The jacket spines - particularly Volume I - sunned easily and the binding spines seem inconsistent in quality and not particularly durable.

This interesting little book is excerpted from Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 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.S. first edition is certainly less stately in appearance, though in our opinion perhaps excessively maligned as being an unattractive edition. When the South Sea Company fails the previous greed of 462 Members of the House of Commons and 162 of their peers are among the many ruined; greed and fear then as now knows no boundaries of moral compass directions. The Chartwell Edition: the first illustrated edition of Churchill's grand history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States, and the second overall. Churchill has been rightfully penned as the “Last Lion” (William Manchester) and if this is the case then certainly the “First Lion” would have to be King Henry II (the “Coeur de Lion” is King Richard I).

All the while, it was apparent that Colonists in America were learning how to thrive in a vast untamed wilderness with Native Americans or First Nation civilizations. This is truly King James I lasting legacy – a thorough, complete, and unbiased edition in English of the Holy Scriptures.S. first edition, there was also a Canadian Book-of-the-Month Club issue similar in style to the Canadian first edition, but bound instead in red cloth with blue spine panels and no head and foot bands. First edition thus, handsomely bound, of this illustrated abridgement of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Churchill's history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States, first published in four volumes from 1956 to 1958. Consequently, he gave considerable attention to the key events of American history, especially the War of Independence and the Civil War. There were publisher presentation sets of the first edition, so noted on the copyright pages, but such sets were not specially bound.