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The Island Race

AuthorWinston S. Churchill

NarratorEdward De Souza

Duration3h 55m

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, History

Key StageA Level

PublisherNaxos

VersionAbridged

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A history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during one of the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill's resonant prose brings to life the political, constitutional and military landmarks of our history: his purpose, to show that a sense of how man may live decently and democratically grew from the heritage of these islands.

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