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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew RobertsPublisher: Orion Publishing Co Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9781474614184ISBN 10: 1474614183 Pages: 752 Publication Date: 28 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsIt is a patriotic history, as lively and partisan as Macaulay's: full of detail, enriched by brilliant pen-portraits, opinionated and provocative. It will have some readers purring in happy agreement, and others tearing their hair in fury - Daily Telegraph Magnificently provoking ... a worthy successor to Churchill's history of the same subject ... this is a work of astonishing range and depth, combining as it does a polemical flair with sure-footed scholarship - New Statesman Roberts has produced a brilliant revisionist history of the English-speaking peoples. The book is rich in vivid characterisations of the major players. This is an exuberant book, by one of the Anglosphere's most accomplished historians - Literary Review It is a patriotic history, as lively and partisan as Macaulay's: full of detail, enriched by brilliant pen-portraits, opinionated and provocative. It will have some readers purring in happy agreement, and others tearing their hair in fury - Daily Telegraph Magnificently provoking ... a worthy successor to Churchill's history of the same subject ... this is a work of astonishing range and depth, combining as it does a polemical flair with sure-footed scholarship - New Statesman Roberts has produced a brilliant revisionist history of the English-speaking peoples. The book is rich in vivid characterisations of the major players. This is an exuberant book, by one of the Anglosphere's most accomplished historians - Literary Review Author InformationAndrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax , The Holy Fox, in 1991. His life of Lord Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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