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A Brilliant Spectacle Unfolds
Newman, James R. | May 19, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The History of the English Speaking Peoples," vol. 1, "The Birth of Britain," by Winston Churchill. This first volume begins with the Roman conquest of Great Britain and carries forward the story to 1485, when that "wise, sad, careful monarch," the first of the Tudors, King Henry VI," ascended the throne. It is a train of centuries, a motley of men and events made to order for Churchill. The color and dimensions, the crimes and misfortunes, the berserker warriors, monsters, fools and heroes, the bloody rages, battles and plots, the royal murders, the march of Britain from a colony to imperium.

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HISTORY of the English Speaking Peoples: The Birth of Britain, A (Book); CHURCHILL, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; GREAT Britain -- History; BATTLES; MURDER; GREAT Britain
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