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[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

Churchill was a master of historical non-fiction. Not "history books," per se, but basically books about historical topics pertaining to England that interested him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_English-Speaking_Peoples. They were very popular during his day.