A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Political opponent Clement Attlee suggested the work should have been titled "Things in history that interested me." Despite these criticisms, the books were bestsellers and reviewed favourably on both sides of the Atlantic. In the "Daily Telegraph", J.H. Plumb wrote: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The
Kra–Dai-speaking peoples Kra–Dai-speaking peoples The Kra–Dai-speaking peoples refer collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to Northeast India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand and parts of Vietnam, which speak languages in the Kra–Dai language family and share some similar traditions. There are five established branches of the Kra–Dai languages, which may not correspond to ethnicity: The Lakkia people of Guangxi Autonomous Region of China ("Tai Lakka" in neighboring portions of Vietnam) are ethnically of Yao, but speak a Kra–Dai language called "Lakkia". These Yao were likely in an area dominated by Tai speakers