History of the English Speaking Peoples

The two centuries covered in Volume II, from 1485 to 1688, were the years which saw the Golden Age and the beginning of the world's greatest empire; then the seventeenth century, the century of internal strife in which the English Parliament developed from an advisory to a governing body, arbiter of the highest affairs of State. These were also the years when the New World of the American continent was discovered and settled by European adventure. Volume I: The Birth of Britain Volume II: The New World Volume III: The Age of Revolution Volume IV: The Great Democracies

About the Author

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II. Throughout his long and distinguished political career his writing was prolific.

Prizes

There has never been a history like this written by a man who himself made history Never have the political and diplomatic decisions of the past been considered by a writer who all his life had to make decisions of the same character and magnitude Sir Winston Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953 for his 'mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory'.