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  <title><![CDATA[History of the English Speaking People - 4-Volume Box Set]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Winston S. Churchill]]></name>
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    <review id="70564730">
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  <read_at>Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 23:33:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 09 00:07:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have rarely seen a book of history so deeply personal and analytical at the same time. By reading this 4-volume book, one gets a glimpse of Winston Churchill's intricate thinking pattern. As one of craftiest politicians of the 20th Century, he led a deeply pacifist British public to rise up agains...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70564730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38723957">
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    <name><![CDATA[Frank]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 16:46:28 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 26 17:42:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 16:46:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book #1:  The Birth of Britain<br/>     Good book.  Tell's briefly the story of each monarch and/or the nobles and their reign from the time when Cesaer invaded England to Richard III.  I give it 4 stars.<br/><br/>Book #2:  The New World<br/>     This book was good, but, a little harder read tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38723957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6471185">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 19 19:56:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 26 07:09:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection is informative and interesting.  The first two volumes were much easier to get through than the last two.  The first two contain information about the British Isles from Antiquity to I believe 1641.  It's a pretty neat time in British History as far as I am concerned.  The next two b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6471185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1127701">
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  <date_added>Wed May 09 13:30:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 09 13:32:55 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[reads like his speeches, e.g.:<br/><br/>It is all true or it ought to be; and more and better besides. And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1127701">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of the written word]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 21:10:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 21:15:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An oustanding historic account of the development of the English language and its spread throughout the world.  An impeccably written life work.  Yes, it took months for me to read it all, yet as I write this, I am aching to read it again.  It covers the dawn of British history and takes you all the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20942900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35760419">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 20 09:03:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 20 09:05:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Baden and I are reading this together right now, so far it is really interesting. We are going to England in the Spring, so we thought we would brush up on English history.   Churchill viewed history as shaped by political and military events, so that is what he wrote about.  There is not much about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35760419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40266430">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 16 18:26:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 31 15:14:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rather readable &quot;history&quot; by Churchill. <br/>I found it enjoyable enough, but wonder if the information Churchill presents is in line with current thinking about Euporean history?<br/>Since this was my fist read about European history I feel like it was a good start as the text was enj...]]></body>
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    <review id="34145536">
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 29 14:13:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 29 14:18:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always thought Churchhill's Nobel Peace Prize was related to his work as PM.  Didn't know it was actually for writing.<br/><br/>I've read Gilbert's Biography first.  It was excellent, but reading Churchhill himself is a real treat.  It's an education in writing and in history.]]></body>
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    <review id="8137414">
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    <name><![CDATA[Debra]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 09:49:11 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 23 12:06:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 14 09:49:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What do I say?  This is an eloquent, beautifully-written history of the English-Speaking Peoples, by an inspirational leader.  Churchill is a dynamic and prolific writer, and I have yet to read anything of his which was not worth while.]]></body>
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    <review id="8134214">
    <user id="572517">
    <name><![CDATA[Bob]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone interested in history]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 23 11:07:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 23 11:11:49 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a history fanatic and I thought this was one the most interesting book(s) I've read.  Churchill does a wonderful job of tracing European/American history from around 1000 to WWII.]]></body>
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    <review id="4692552">
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 17 08:42:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have this set too.<br/><br/>I have read almost every one of Churchill's books. Reading any of them is like going to a technicolor movie.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4692552]]></url>
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    <review id="4692494">
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 17 08:42:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 17 08:45:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read almost every one of Churchill's books. Reading any of them is like going to a technicolor movie.]]></body>
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    <review id="24426508">
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    <name><![CDATA[Patrick]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 13 12:30:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 13 12:31:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[trendy and non substantial. I fail to see the value. Note - I have not read these books.]]></body>
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    <review id="47428596">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good history lesson from the view point of a great man of that era]]></body>
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    <review id="5568640">
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    <name><![CDATA[Travis]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 05:07:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great work of history that begins with pre-Roman Britain.]]></body>
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    <review id="32015397">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Invaluable resource in a single volume.]]></body>
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    <review id="10137185">
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 08 09:29:01 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 08 09:29:36 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I have ever read!]]></body>
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