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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Name: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Author: Winston S. Churchill

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain to the beginning of the First World War . It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–58, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition.

“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless wretchedness and cruelty.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On a series of Viking raids; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

“872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain, ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.
On Ivar, a Viking King (c. 872); Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

“When the next year the raiders returned and landed near Jarrow they were stoutly attacked while harassed by bad weather. Many were killed. Their "king" was captured and put to a cruel death, and the fugitives carried so grim a tale back to Denmark that for forty years the English coasts were unravaged.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On a Viking Raid in 794 A.D.; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On the Luddites ; Vol II: The New World, p. 121
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round. Let us then declare that King Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul barbarians and set decent folk an example for all time.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On King Arthur Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)

“William now directed his archers to shoot high into the air, so that the arrows would fall behind the shield-wall, and one of these pierced Harold in the right-eye, inflicting a mortal wound. He fell at the foot of the royal standard, unconquerable except by death, which does not count in honour. The hard-fought battle was now decided.”

Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

On the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)