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Story of the World: History for the Classical Child -- Early Modern Times V 3 8xCD, The: 3 (Story of the World: History for the Classical Child) (Open Texture)

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Susan Wise Bauer

Creator: Barbara Alan Johnson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-07-11
Dewey code: 900
Price: £100.00

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This Sceptered Isle: Dynasties Vol 4 (BBC Radio Collection) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Creator: Christopher Lee
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 900
Price: £12.99

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This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties is Christopher Lee's third book on British history taken from BBC Radio 4 series. The first was a bracing gallop through the centuries from the Roman invasion to the death of Victoria, the second a more leisurely chronicle of the country in the 20th century. Both were solidly traditional in their commitment to narrative and to the decisive impact of great men (and, occasionally, great women) on events. This third book on the country's most powerful families necessarily makes even clearer Lee's belief that the story of the nation is to be found in the actions of great individuals. From the Godwines of late Anglo-Saxon England through the Mortimers of medieval warfare and the Cecils of Tudor politicking to the Churchills and Russells of more modern times, he traces the stories of 15 power-broking families in a series of self-contained chapters. The book has its faults. Because many of the families coincided in the times of their greatness, the reader gets some of the same stories (from the Glorious Revolution, for example) told again and again beyond the point where repetition seems valuable. There are too many paragraphs outlining aristocratic genealogy in the sort of detail that only those who read Burke's Peerage for pleasure will find enjoyable. But Lee's narrative skill, his sense of character and gift for choosing the stories to best illustrate it, all combine to produce a book that conveys vividly, and often brilliantly, the power that a handful of families have wielded in British history. -Nick Rennison.

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