Catalog Search Results
1) Churchill
Author
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Rich with anecdote and quotation, Johnson's narrative illustrates the British statesman's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography before.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour's history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britain's dominant political...
Author
Language
English
Description
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's -- Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that, by...
Author
Series
His Second World War volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers the problems confronted by Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister, the Battle of France, the story of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the rebuilding of England's Army.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Thatcher was born in a British town called Grantham. Her family owned a grocery store and lived in an apartment above it. Young Margaret learned a lot from how the shop was run. When she became prime minister, she would put those lessons to good use. It was no easy thing to do. But Margaret Thatcher was one of the toughest politicians of her time. After all, it was not for nothing that they called her the Iron Lady."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion... I shall be in command of the defences of London... it will fall to me to save the Capital, to save the Empire. "It was a most unlikely prediction. Perceived as a failure for much of his life, Churchill was the last person anyone would have expected to rise to national prominence as prime...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Winston Churchill was seen even in his own lifetime as a historic figure, one of the great men of world history, commemorated all across the world (but especially among the English-speaking peoples) in statues, memorials, streets and schools named after him, and in a plethora of stamps, medals, plates, and other such memorabilia. By his own effort and willpower, Churchill inspired the West in the fights against Fascism and Communism in the 1940s,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born to an American mother and a British aristocratic father. From very early on in life he believed that destiny had chosen him for a great task. It turned out he was right. Never in his lifetime was there a greater, more important task than the fight against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Churchill was among the first to understand this. Had he not bravely stood up to Hitler until the United States came...
Author
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
James C. Humes reveals shocking predictions made by Britain's most famous prime minister. Churchill didn't need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past to make his eerily accurate forecasts, including the rise of European fascism, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the exact day of his own death as he entered his final years.
Author
Language
English
Description
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century.
Author
Series
Last lion (William Manchester) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester's monumental biography the Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany and continues through Churchill's fight against the rising tide of communism.
Author
Language
English
Description
Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank—Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.
Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of...
Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture. Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft aphorisms, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during...
Author
Series
Last lion (William Manchester) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spanning the years of 1874-1932, this first volume in Manchester's monumental biography, The Last Lion, begins with Churchill's early life and goes on to discuss his marriage, military career, and early years in Parliament.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request