Churchill The End Of Glory A Political Biography

Author : John Charmley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780156001441
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill, the End of Glory written by John Charmley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1994 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fifteen years' research in archives in Britain, France, and America, this new political biography reapprises the Churchill myth created by the man and his official biographer to reveal a complex figure who is far more interesting than the ideal leader he is so often presented to be.

Author : John Charmley
Publisher : Macfarlane Walter & Ross
ISBN 13 : 9780921912057
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill, the End of Glory : a Political Biography written by John Charmley and published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fifteen years' research in archives in Britain, France and America, John Charmley offers a fresh examination of the Churchill myth as created by official biographers and the man himself. The book describes Churchill's long climb to power and influence and the human price which his ambitions exacted from those around him; it shows that his virtues and character were built on a heroic scale, so too were his faults and failures. This controversial reappraisal of Churchill made headlines and stirred an emotional debate about the great leader's conduct of World War II. "From the Hardcover edition.

Author : John Charmley
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156004701
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill's Grand Alliance written by John Charmley and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a reassessment of the "special relationship" between the U.S. and England during and after World War II

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0385313489
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 written by William Manchester and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1984-04-01 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.”—People When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy. From master biographer William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times—and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Praise for The Last Lion: Visions of Glory “Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.”—Russell Baker “Bedazzling.”—Newsweek “Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill’s] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.”—Chicago Tribune “A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.”—Boston Herald “Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.”—Time

Author : Samantha Heywood
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415286725
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill written by Samantha Heywood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the influential career of Winston Churchill, this new book discusses his career from Secretary of State for War and Air, to British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If I Lived My Life Again written by Winston Churchill and published by W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1974 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795344635
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in the official biography: “A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement” (Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War). Starting with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ending with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this volume in the epic biography of Winston S. Churchill draws on remarkably diverse material: from the War Cabinet and other government records to Churchill’s own archive and diaries and letters of his private secretariat to the recollections of those who worked most closely with him. On the day Hitler invaded Poland, Churchill, aged sixty-four, had been out of office for ten years. Two days later, he became First Lord of the Admiralty, in charge of British naval policy and at the center of war direction. In May 1940 he became prime minister, leading his nation during a time of grave danger and setbacks. His first year and a half as prime minister included the Dunkirk evacuation, the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the Battle of the Atlantic, the struggle in the Western Desert, and Hitler’s invasion of Russia. By the end of 1940, Britain under Churchill’s leadership had survived the onslaught and was making plans to continue the war against an enemy of unlimited ambition and ferocious will. One of Churchill’s inner circle said: “We who worked with Churchill every day of the war still saw at most a quarter of his daily tasks and worries.” Martin Gilbert has pieced together the whole, setting in context much hitherto scattered and secret evidence, in order to give an intimate and fascinating account of the architect of Britain’s “finest hour.” “The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300103021
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill written by John Lukacs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter of this book provides an essential portrait of Churchill at the height of his powers. In addition to vividly depicting his relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and other world leaders, Lukacs reflects on Churchill's ability to foresee the coming of World War II and the Cold War; he weighs Churchill's stature as a historian looking backward at the conflicts of which he was so much a part; and he examines the often contradictory ways Churchill has been perceived by critics and admirers alike. The last chapter is a powerful and deeply moving evocation of the three days Lukacs spent in London attending Churchill's funeral in 1965, and it offers a final assessment of Churchill's place in history through the prism of the varied individuals who came to honor him after his death. In Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian., Luckacs sets forth the essence of this towering figure with consummate mastery."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781521003169
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winston Churchill written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill The man that the world knows as Winston Churchill looms large on the stage of world history. Like some sort of colossus from antiquity, Churchill strides between two major epochs in the world, one foot planted in the glory days of the British Empire when the sun never set on history's largest known conglomeration of imperial holdings and the other planted firmly in the aftermath of World War Two, and a post-war order that saw that empire collapse, with Britain barely hanging on to its own sovereignty in the wake. Inside you will read about... ✓ Love and War ✓ Courting the Americans ✓ The Allies Show their Teeth ✓ Preparing for the Post-war World ✓ Wrestling the Reins of Power ✓ Churchill's Hiatus ✓ The End of an Empire And much more!With the Iron Curtain descending over Europe, Churchill was the first to raise the alarm bell that signaled the start of the Cold War. Churchill was a master at the helm, navigating his country and to a much larger extent the world through some of its darkest hours, even while he battled some of his own personal demons of depression and doubt. Follow along as Churchill guides us through uncharted and uncertain waters through the sheer power of his own pugnacious pizzazz.

Author : Christopher Catherwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510720316
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Finest Hour written by Christopher Catherwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man. Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone who understood the dangers of Nazi Germany before 1939 and someone uniquely capable to lead the empire through the turmoil of the Second World War. Christopher Catherwood argues that it was Churchill’s stand in 1940-41 that saved Britain and that only he was able to bring together the allies that eventually defeated Hitler in 1945. Catherwood has produced a challenging yet lively reassessment of the life and career of Winston Churchill, lion of British history and flawed hero.