The great republic Book

Fabulous. Fun to see American history from the perspective of a great Englishman, Winston Churchill. On the colonization of America, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Reconstruction, Great Depression, American Isolation and reluctant involvement in WWI and WWII, Westward expansion, etc., Churchill peppers his description of these great events with references to how these events were perceived in England.

On the Civil War, for example, apparently England thought it very unlikely the Union could bring the South back through fighting. On WWII, Churchill believed it could have been entirely prevented if the world had recognized the problem of Hitler in 1933 or 1934. In this book, which is a shorter version of his much longer historical works, Churchill doesn't go into too much detail of his efforts to persuade Roosevelt to come to the aid of the civilized world. And there is practically no self-aggrandizement throughout the entire book.

Despite the long adversarial history between England and America in the 18th and 19th centuries, the first and second world wars in the 20th solidified an Anglo-American unity that remains unbroken.