NY: Arcade Publishing, 2011. 322 p.
An excellent complement to the audiobook and the series. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world.
The Common Tongue.
The Great Escape.
Conquest.
Holding On.
The Speech of Kings.
Chaucer.
God’s English.
English and the Language of the State.
William Tyndale’s Bible.
A Renaissance of Words.