By Simon Schama
Timothy West reads the second one quantity of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles.
The British wars all started at the morning of 23 July 1637, heralding 2 hundred years of battles. so much have been pushed via non secular or political conviction, as Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, and colonialists and natives vied for supremacy. Of the battles now not fought on domestic territory, many happened throughout Europe, the US, India, and likewise at sea.
Schama's exam of this turbulent interval unearths how the British humans ultimately united in imperial firm, forming 'Britannia Incorporated'. the tale of that fluctuate conjures up the reminiscence of such enduringly influential humans as Oliver Cromwell, in addition to lesser identified yet both notable participants. a narrative of revolution and response, development and disaster, it is a shiny account of 2 centuries which replaced Britain.
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