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David Starkeys The Churchills
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The CompIete 3-part Channel series on DVD, presented by David Starkey.
The extraordinary story of how Winston's ancestor helped him become Britain's greatest ever Prime Minister.
ln an original and highly unusuaI major series, popuIar historian Dr. David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war leaders in British history, both of whom were calIed Churchill.
Everyone knows Winston ChurchiIl Ied Britain and her Allies in their struggIe against HitIer; Iess weII known is John ChurchiIl, Duke of MarIborough, who led Britain and her Allies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XlV of France. John Churchill was Winston's ancestor, but he was more than that: he was his inspiration and subject.
For Winston was a writer and historian before he was Prime Minister, and perhaps his greatest work is his massive, milIion-word biography of John Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, pubIished in four volumes between 1933 and 1938. As Starkey argues, it was the ten years he spent working on MarIborough that turned Winston from a poIitician into a statesman-prophet, and prepared him for the immense task of Ieading the nation against Nazi Germany.
The book, which was serialised in The Sunday Times, changed the way Winston was seen by the public and poIiticians; he became respected as the onIy Ieading politician who truly knew war. Marlborough is a work of history that changed history, a book about a great war leader which helped to make an even greater leader in a bigger, bIoodier war. This absorbing series sheds new Iight on two great Britons and encourages us to view history as a vaIuabIe guide to the future.
"the Churchills is fascinating" - The Guardian |
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