A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement

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We enter the Crimean War; a war with the French and the goal of one day taking the Russian Frontier. First, he describes the vast amount of immigrants that left the British Empire for Canada, to include the 100,00+ Loyalists that did not wish to live under the new Republic of the United States.

Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the very year that saw Churchill conclude his first North American lecture tour, take his first seat in Parliament, and begin to make history himself.English, or British, history was once ultimately fascinating, the most compelling societies in the world maneuvering in stealth to determine which way the wind shall blow both at home and to the immediate East, but it peeked, extended well beyond just one direction, and by and large the outgrowth of parliament and the regulation of royalty threw a big bucket of acid on all the pomp and intrigue that even little children know to mimic simply by instinct. In fact, this was a piece of background reading for a course on translation from English into my language). This book ends with the last three chapters; one of which is entitled “Washington, Adams, and Jefferson”, “The War of 1812”; and, the last chapter of book 9, chapter 24 entitled “Elba and Waterloo. It aims rather to present a personal view on the processes whereby English-speaking peoples throughout the world have achieved their distinctive position and character. William Shakespeare was certainly an admirer; his plays and many forms of literature prove this and have stood the test of time like no other of his era; though some may come close – no author has outlasted his popularity and he was by this American’s standard an excellent representative of his era to History.

Begun during Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of WWII had cemented his place in history, and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history" (Bloomsbury). The endpapers are marbled and elaborately gilt tooled, all edges are gilded, the spines are gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. The original slipcases are clean and fully intact with little wear, though the blue paper in which they are covered has grayed.

Each volume is housed in an undecorated, heavy card slipcase covered in the same pale blue paper as the endpapers.