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Author(s): Churchill, Winston
Reader(s): Heath, Edward; Souza, Edward de
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: History
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA304712
Barcode: 0730099004725
Release Date: 04/1995
CHURCHILL, W.: Island Race (The) (Abridged)
Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill’s resonant prose brings to vivid and compelling 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.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Churchill, Winston - Author
Heath, Edward (Reader)
Souza, Edward de (Reader)
Souza, Edward de (Reader)
|  | 1 | Introduction | 03:16 |
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| | 2 | Julius Caesar | 07:03 |
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| | 3 | The Saxons | 04:21 |
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| | 4 | The Vikings and King Alfred | 09:07 |
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| | 5 | King Harold | 07:28 |
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| | 6 | King Henry II | 04:48 |
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| | 7 | King Richard I | 02:57 |
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| | 8 | King John | 04:02 |
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| | 9 | King Edward I | 06:01 |
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| | 10 | King Edward III | 07:53 |
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| | 11 | The Black Death | 03:53 |
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| | 12 | King Richard II | 03:19 |
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| | 13 | King Henry V | 05:36 |
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| | 14 | Joan Of Arc | 04:02 |
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| | 15 | King Richard III | 03:50 |
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Disc 2
| | 1 | The Battle Of Bosworth Field | 03:19 |
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| | 2 | Henry VII | 07:53 |
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| | 3 | Henry VIII | 01:47 |
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| | 4 | Queen Mary | 02:16 |
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| | 5 | Queen Elizabeth I | 05:40 |
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| | 6 | The Spanish Armada | 05:58 |
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| | 7 | King James VI | 00:49 |
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| | 8 | The New World | 02:48 |
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| | 9 | King Charles I | 04:22 |
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| | 10 | Oliver Cromwell | 04:39 |
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| | 11 | The Second Civil War | 03:23 |
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| | 12 | The English Republic | 03:55 |
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| | 13 | The Plague | 01:25 |
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| | 14 | King James II | 07:11 |
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| | 15 | William Of Orange | 06:47 |
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| | 16 | The Battle Of Blenheim | 02:34 |
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| | 17 | The Battle Of Ramillies | 04:07 |
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| | 18 | King George I | 03:40 |
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| | 19 | The Jacobites | 06:43 |
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Disc 3
| | 1 | King George III | 02:43 |
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| | 2 | The British Empire | 02:43 |
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| | 3 | The French Revolution | 05:49 |
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| | 4 | The Battle OF Trafalgar | 06:41 |
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| | 5 | Napoleon | 02:52 |
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| | 6 | Wellington | 04:59 |
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| | 7 | The Hundred Days War | 07:04 |
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| | 8 | The Industrial Revolution | 03:58 |
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| | 9 | King William IV | 05:56 |
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| | 10 | The Toll Puddle 'Martyrs' | 03:04 |
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| | 11 | The Great Exhibition | 01:36 |
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| | 12 | The Crimean War | 04:12 |
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| | 13 | Gladstone and Disraeli | 05:01 |
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| | 14 | The War in Egypt | 04:11 |
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| | 15 | The Reform Bill | 06:00 |
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| | 16 | The Labour Party | 03:14 |
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| | 17 | The Boer War | 05:46 |
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| | 18 | Epilogue | 01:48 |
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Total Playing Time: 03:54:29