The Birth of Britain

A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I

By: Sir Winston Churchill

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55 BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

Don't miss the rest of the titles in this great series!

Volume II The New World: A History of the English Speaking Peoples,

Volume III The Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, and

Volume IV The Great Democracies: A History of the English Speaking Peoples.

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a true time of England

can anyone better than Sir Winston tell this story, it should be standard listening for all history classes in English schools.

Wonderfully Classic Western Thinking

Churchill has a worldview that remains true and is sorely missed. This book is a wonderful and recharging "read".

Fantastic Primer

Churchill is a remarkable writer and historian. None of his wisdom, knowledge, or excellence is lost here. A true version of game of thrones for the ages.

Phenomenal Trip Through Early History

I have my differences with the idea of Churchill as a great leader. His gifts were many and so were his faults and a lot of the myth surrounding him drives out consideration of his darker qualities. But boy oh boy, he could write.

History as presented here is clearly on the side of the "great man" theory and there is little discussion of how the rest of the folks live. Despite this view, the story of England's early years is told in a compelling and highly interesting way.

For those looking to have an overview of how things progressed through the War of the Roses, this is the book. Narrator does a very fine job with some great prose.

TBOBAHOTESP V-1

Loved it, hated to see it end with the beginning of Henry VII. Send volume 2

Beautifully written history of Britannia

Churchill is incredibly verbose, but thoroughly entertaining in his seminal work. Definitely worth a listen before, during, or after a visit to Britain.

Excellent History

I passed exams in History at school, how I don't know. I found it boring to the max.

A couple of years ago, I started to read the fabulously bitchy history of England by Baron Macaulay for Librivox audio. It was an absolute hoot, which made me realise that history can be interesting and fun.

The more I read, the more I realise how good *this* work of Winston Churchills really is. David Hume's is probably the more complete, but this definitely puts meat on dry bones. The late Winston was an opinionated old scoot, and without doubt, definitely a snob. He unquestionably considered the aristocracy, of which he was a member, rather better than yer average citizen.

Strangely enough, while that does come through, it doesn't annoy.

I particularly enjoyed his take on the middle ages, where it had the definite ring of veracity.

Every history of Britain suffers from lack of detail from Caesars time through about AD800 or so. The documents are patchy, and mostly compiled from monks drawing the history of their church, rather than the times. Churchill runs through this time lightly, offering his opinion as best as can be gained from the documents available, and better than most, Hume included.

Very well read, very well written and consistently interesting. A surprise and a constant delight.




brendan

Fantastic stories

Churchill has a way with words. My only wish is that the audiobook chapters were broken up into smaller bits so I knew when to stop.

The reader MAKES the audiobook!

This book is direct and linear history, but the voice inflections at points-made instances by Christian Rodska makes the usually dry telling come alive. LOVED IT!!!

Birth of Britain

Winston Churchill's seminal work crackles right along through centuries of British depravity and triumphs, just enough detail and on you go (although one might wish to hear a bit more of the condition of the non-noble common man). Churchill spices his research with a generous serving of opinion in a way that only one who has "been there" can do. While it was launched decades ago it remains a very contemporary history.