The Birth of Britain Author:Winston S. Churchill The Birht Of Britain is Winston S. Churchill's magnificent re-creation of the early years of England. Here are Julius Caesar and the Roman legions who civilized it, the Nordic barbarians who overran its shores, the Norman conquerors who united it with the continent. Here are the bloody feuds and civil wars, Richard the Lion-Hearted and the Crusa... more »des, the Magna Carta which planted the first seeds of freedom, the Black Death and the War of the Roses, and finally, England's emergence from Feudalism with the discovery of the New World.« less