General in Winter

''The glories of the Age of Anne'' — the union of England and Scotland to form ''this island of Britain'', and its establishment as a European and a global power — were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne''s captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and her Lord Treasurer, Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, of whom it was said that each ''was the greatest of his k...