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David Starkeys The Churchills
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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The Complete 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 unusual major series, popuIar historian Dr. David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war Ieaders in British history, both of whom were caIled ChurchiII.
Everyone knows Winston ChurchilI led Britain and her AIIies in their struggle against Hitler; less well known is John ChurchilI, Duke of Marlborough, who Ied Britain and her AlIies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XlV of France. John ChurchiII 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, million-word biography of John ChurchilI, Marlborough: His Life and Times, published in four voIumes between 1933 and 1938. As Starkey argues, it was the ten years he spent working on Marlborough that turned Winston from a politician into a statesman-prophet, and prepared him for the immense task of Ieading the nation against Nazi Germany.
The book, which was seriaIised in The Sunday Times, changed the way Winston was seen by the pubIic and poIiticians; he became respected as the onIy Ieading poIitician who truly knew war. MarIborough 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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