The Age of Revolution

424 Pages·1957·44.323 MB·English

by  Winston Spencer Churchill

C
7/3^

VOLUME THREE
The Age
of
Revolution

A HISTORY OF THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
The Age
of
Revolution
Winston Churchill
S.
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK
:
1957
© 1957 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc.
w
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK
MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PER-
MISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 56-6868
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I desire to record my thanks again to Mr. F. W. Deakin and
Mr. G. M. Young for their assistance before the SecondWorld
War in the preparation of this work; to Dr. J. H. Plumb of
Christ's College, Cambridge, Mr. Steven Watson of Christ
Church, Oxford, Professor Asa Briggs of Leeds University,
Professor Frank Freidel, now of Stanford University, Cali-
fornia, who have scrutinised the text in the light of subsequent
advances in historical knowledge; and to Mr. Alan Hodge,
Mr. Denis Kelly, and Mr. C. C. Wood. I have also to thank
many others who have kindly read these pages and com-
mented upon them.
In the opening chapters of this volume I have, with the per-
mission of Charles Scribner's Sons, followed the character of
my Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933-38), summaris-
ing where necessary, but also using phraseology and making
quotations.