You may know your American history quite well, but if you haven’t heard the story told in the elevated phraseology of Sir Winston Churchill, you are truly missing out. He doesn’t pull any punches, offering a share of the bad along with the good, and yet when you hear it all pulled together with such insight and lofty rhetoric, it makes the revisit to familiar places totally worthwhile. I listened to the reading by Winston S. Churchill, the grandson the author and editor of this volume. His voice and cadence are a perfect addition to the story. I didn’t care so much for the grandson’s introduction, but once we got down to Sir Winston’s history, it was nothing but pleasure and inspiration. Highly recommended! ( )

DEN