A History of the English-speaking Peoples

A magnificent book. A joint political history-the most comprehen- sive and discerning ever written-of the English-Speaking Nations." SIR ARTHUR BRYANT, Sunday Times. 'It is written with verve, with beautiful clarity, and with a fine sense of drama. Sir Winston's judgments on men have the weight of an immense experience of affairs behind them. All are penetrating; many are memorable.' Manchester Guardian.

'The chapters on the seventeenth century are a brilliant four de force. The pace of the narrative is wonderfully handled, complex politics and strategy are elucidated with the skill of a master craftsman. Time and time again the prose rises to great heights, to sublime rhetoric.’ J. H. PLUMB (Professor of History, Christ's College, Cambridge), Spectator.

'Sir Winston's description of the poetic, indeed the Aristotelian, struggle between Crown and Parliament is a masterpiece in the marshalling of tendencies and events.' Times Literary Supplement

‘There is much more than pageant and drama to Sir Winston's handling of historical material. Here again, as in the first volume, the clear surface of the narrative is backed by knowledge and shot with penetrating comment.’ C. V. WEDGWOOD, Time and Tide.

‘This work will be, for generations of common readers, the history of England. From it millions throughout the world may learn the only history they will ever know. That it should alse be balanced, accurate and reliable is thus a matter of the profoundest import- ance; it is by no means the least of the debts which the world awes to this amazing mitn.' MICHAEL HOWARD, New Statesman and Nation.