The Birth of Britain Author:Winston S. Churchill An 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 adn civil wars, Richard the Lion-Hearted adn the Crusades, the Magna Carta which planted the first seeds of ... more »freedom, the Black Death and the War of the Roses, and finally, England's emergence f rom Feudalism with the discovery of the New World.« less