1759 the year Britain became master of the world /

Frank McLynn is fast becoming recognized as one of the best popular historians writing today. With his new work, 1759, he forcefully and effectively argues that the entire history of the world would have been different if not for the events of that year-a date as vital as 1066. The fourth year of the Seven Years War, or French and Indian Wars, 1759 was called "the Year of Victories" and laid the foundations of British global dominance for the next hundred years.