Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235188 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Michael Burleigh, LITERARY REVIEW
'a brilliant revisionist history of the English-speaking peoples which deserves to beput into the hands of every teenager.'

Review
'a brilliant revisionist history of the English-speaking peoples which deserves to beput into the hands of every teenager.' (Michael Burleigh LITERARY REVIEW )

'Now Andrew Roberts the celebrated biographer of Lord Halifax and Salisbury, takes the story to the present day in his own epic.' (Brendan Simms EVENING STANDARD )

'Magnificently provoking. ... A worthy successor to Churchill's history of the same subject. ... This is not a book for those who like their history written in various shades of apologetic grey. This is history written with the author's heart on his sleeve. This is a work of astonishing range and depth, combining as it does a polemical flair with sure-footed scholarship.' (Hywel Williams NEW STATESMAN )

'This book takes no prisoners. It is a bold, uncompromising trumpet blast in celebration of the political, economic and cultural achievements of the English-Speaking Peoples in the 20th century and until the present day. ... Roberts is never without a trenchant opinion or a scathing denunciation of humbug. In robust prose and armed with immense learning, he is always readable and never loses sight of his overarching theme.' (Christopher Silvester DAILY EXPRESS )

'This book makes exhilarating reading if you believe all has been and remains right with the world as long as the English-speaking peoples are in charge.' (Peter Lewis THE DAILY MAIL )

'he has interesting and perceptive things to say about the more exotic aspects of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora.' (Richard Overy THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

'In Roberts, the Anglo-American-Australian-Canadian-Kiwi Special Relationship has found an advocate of Churchillian eloquence.' (Niall Ferguson THE MAIL ON SUNDAY )

'full of detail, enriched by pen-portraits, opinionated and provocative.' (Allan Massie THE DAILY TELEGRAPH )

'To continue the great work of Winston Churchill is a mighty challenge but Andrew Roberts carries it off brilliantly.' (Tim Newark MILITARY ILLUSTRATED )

'it is beautifully written and well be widely read.' (Vernon Bagdanor THE FINANCIAL TIMES )

'I read this book with much pleasure and instruction. To resume reading so large a tome with anticipation of enjoyment is testimony to the skill of the author; and, when all is said and done, the achievement of the Engish-speaking peoples is great.' (Anthony Daniels THE SPECTATOR )

'Andrew Roberts has written an extraordinarily wide-ranging, stimulating and necessary book.' (Denis Judd HISTORY TODAY )

'a compelling - and distinctively British - guide to the story of the English-speaking peoples.' (Richard Aldous THE IRISH TIMES )

Niall Ferguson, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
'In Roberts, the Anglo-American-Australian-Canadian-Kiwi Special Relationship has found an advocate of Churchillian eloquence.'

Customer Reviews

An antidote to mindless anti-Americanism
The occasional breeziness of the style can be irritating and the ending is rather disappointing, but I feel this is a book which is long-overdue. We are force-fed a relentless diet of anti-British anti-American anti-Imperialist propaganda from the media and a book which gives a balanced account of Anglo achievements is much to be welcomed!

An excellent account of the English Speaking Peoples!!
This is an excellent account of the English Speaking Peoples and their contribution to the worldwide stage over the last century. The impact and spread of democracy, free speech and liberal thinking against the backdrop of frequent opposition, tyranny and oppression. Let's hope we can continue to survive the coming onslaught. An excellent celebration of the English speaking brotherhood, and about time too!

It's About Time!
I loved this book. In fact, I've been waiting for one like it for years. Why does every ethnic, linguistic, national and religious group but the English speaking peoples get to celebrate their history and accomplishments? Perhaps it's because our contributions have been so great. Perhaps it would seem like boasting, which we don't do very well.

I'm a Canadian and I love the way that the author treats all of the English speaking peoples as constituting one cultural, linguistic and, indeed, historical family. On the first page of the introduction, the author writes "just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of the Roman Empire, so in future no-one will bother to make a distinction between the British Empire-led and American Republic-led periods of English-speaking dominance between the late-eighteenth and the twenty-first centuries. It will be recognized that in the majestic sweep of history they had so much in common - and enough that separated them from everyone else - that they ought to be regarded as a single historical entity, which only scholars and pedants will try to describe separately."

Bravo Mr. Roberts! It's about time.

If you, dear reader, are an English speaking person and are fed-up with a lifetime of being blamed for everything that is wrong in this world, read this book, celebrate your heritage, celebrate the magnificent and selfless contributions your people have made to the world and, most of all, celebrate your brotherhood and sisterhood with the Brits, the Yanks, the Canucks, the Aussies, the Kiwis and every other member of our far-flung family. Even though, in most circles, it's not politically correct to do so, for once, give yourself permission to be proud of yourself.