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The Birth of Britain, 1956
The first volume of the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister's breathtaking history of Britain explores the birth of a great nation and world power. In the "wilderness" years after Winston S. Churchill unflinchingly guided his country through World War II, he turned his masterful hand t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
RosettaBooks,
2013.
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| Colección: | History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Contents; Preface; Book I: The Island Race; I. Britannia; II. Subjugation; III. The Roman Province; IV. The Lost Island; V. England; VI. The Vikings; VII. Alfred the Great; VIII. The Saxon Dusk; Book II: The Making of the Nation; I. The Norman Invasion; II. William the Conqueror; III. Growth amid Turmoil; IV. Henry Plantagenet; V. The English Common Law; VI. Cœur de Lion; VII. Magna Carta; VIII. On the Anvil; IX. The Mother of Parliaments; X. King Edward I; XI. Bannockburn; XII. Scotland and Ireland; XIII. The Long-Bow; XIV. The Black Death
- Book III: The End of the Feudal AgeI. King Richard II and the Social Revolt; II. The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke; III. The Empire of Henry V; IV. Joan of Arc; V. York and Lancaster; VI. The Wars of the Roses; VII. The Adventures of Edward IV; VIII. Richard III; Maps and Genealogical Tables