Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 William of Orange was the father of Queen Victoria. He was born into a loveless marriage and had a difficult childhood, but he had a remorseless fire within him that he hid behind his Dutch surroundings. He was ruthless. #2 William was a very cold and calculating man. He had little interest in England’s domestic affairs, and only wanted the wealth and power of England for the European war. He used the English public men who had been his confederates for his own ends, and rewarded them for their services. #3 The British nation had been united in the expulsion of James. But there was no lawful government, and a Convention Parliament was summoned by the Prince on the advice of the statesmen who had made the Revolution. The whole British nation was committed to the general coalition against France. #4 The British Isles went into a dangerous war crisis in 1689. The exiled King James was received by Louis with every mark of consideration and sympathy, and he was soon defended by a Catholic army which may have reached a hundred thousand men.

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World War 1 and its aftermath.

This memoir was first published in 1930 and describes the author's school days, his time in the Army, his experiences as a war correspondent and his first years as a member of Parliament.

The third volume of the prime minister’s history of Britain follows the nation’s ascent as a world power and its response to the threat of Napoleon. In the “wilderness” years after Sir Winston Churchill unflinchingly guided his country through World War II, he turned his masterful hand to an exhaustive history of the country he loved above all else. And the world discovered that this brilliant military strategist was an equally brilliant storyteller. In 1953, the great man was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.” This third of four volumes explores Britain’s rise to world leadership during the eighteenth-century Age of Revolution. With characteristic eloquence, Churchill recounts the plunging of the South Seas company stock, the Spanish and Austrian Successions, the Treaty of Utrecht, the Seven Years’ War, and the American and French Revolutions. This sweeping history is a must-read for history buffs. “This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues—its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country’s past.” —The Daily Telegraph