A History of the English Speaking Peoples Volume One The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill – A History of the English Speaking Peoples Volume One – The Birth of Britain

Winston Churchill – A History of the English Speaking Peoples Volume One – The Birth of Britain
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Title: The Birth of Britain
Author: Winston Churchill
Read By: Christian Rodska
Year of Recording: 2002
Year Book Published: 1956
Genre: Historical Non-fiction
Publisher: BBC/Chivers Audio Books
Series Name: A History of The English Speaking Peoples
Position in Series: 01
Abridged: No
Total Duration: 17 hrs
Total mp3 Size: 940 Mb
No. of mp3 files: 68 (in 15min parts)
Encoded at 128kbps

Synopsis:
The narrative commences 55 years before the birth of Christ, when Julius Caesar famously ‘turned his gaze
upon Britain’ and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Along the way we encounter a plethora of
closely observed characters, all of whom breathe life into the page: William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great,
Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Arc. The beginnings of Parliament, the Church and the monarchy are all
analysed alongside this comprehensive chronology. THE ISLAND RACE Britannia; Subjugation; Roman
Province; Lost Island; England; Vikings; Alfred the Great; Saxon Dusk THE MAKING OF THE NATION Norman
Invasion; William the Conqueror; Growth amid Turmoil; Henry Plantagenet; English Common Law; Coeur de
Lion; Magna Carta; On the Anvil; Mother of Parliaments; Edward I; Bannockburn; Scotland & Ireland;
Long-Bow; Black Death THE END OF THE FEUDAL AGE King Richard II and the Social Revolt; Usurpation of
Henry Bolingbroke; Empire of Henry V; Joan of Arc; York and Lancaster; Wars of the Roses; Adventures of
Edward IV; Richard III

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.

Throughout his long and distinguished political career he wrote many books and was a recognised historian.

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