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Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 423 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded.
A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful Hitler in 1940 while the world's democracies...
10) My life
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
480 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles Churchill's life at the time of the Boer War when he was captured and taken prisoner. He pulled off a daring escape, after which he enlisted and then went back to liberate the others that had been captured with him. Millard presents an epic story of bravery, savagery and chance encounters with historical characters such as Rudyard Kipling and Mohandas Ghandi that would shape Churchill's future.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
20) The crown
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 599 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
