In fact, this was a piece of background reading for a course on translation from English into my language).

In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously in Britain, the USA and Canada a first for Churchill s works" Vol. The BBC produced a series of twenty-six fifty-minute plays loosely based around Churchill's work and entitled Churchill's People which were broadcast in 1974 and 1975. All the while, it was apparent that Colonists in America were learning how to thrive in a vast untamed wilderness with Native Americans or First Nation civilizations. I use the term 'English-speaking peoples' because there is no other that applies both to the inhabitants of the British Isles and to those independent nations who derive their beginnings, their speech, and many of their institutions from England, and who now preserve, nourish, and develop them in their own ways.

Intentionally, I read the first volume slowly as I wanted to ensure I could learn as much as possible. The Revolution of 1688 and later a war with Spain had forced a different focus upon Britain an ocean away. S. first edition of this particular work quite striking as well as strikingly different in appearance from its British first edition counterpart seems entirely appropriate. Moving onto the history of Napoleon and the naval wars that ensued I came away with a new form of admiration made greater for Admiral Horatio Nelson and Sir Arthur Wellesley.

S. Congress on 26 December 1941 he famously quipped, "I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own. Disraeli and Gladstone as PM’s had their moments in the sun; Disraeli of course attempted to get to the spot of the sun much longer in my opinion.In his preface he remarks that the book ‘slumbered peacefully’, until 1956, ‘when things had quietened down’.