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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 1006 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers, and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement, and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the fall of the Berlin Wall, which she had fought for, and the rise of the modern EU that she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political...
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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.
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
452 pages
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A biography of the British prime minister focuses on his relationship with the British Empire, discussing his time serving in conflicts in India, South Africa, and the Sudan and discussing his outdated views that some nationalities were superior to others.
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"Eric Larson 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 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013-2016.
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"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 andthe world in the late twentieth century. Moore has had unique access to all of Thatcher's private and governmental papers, and interviewed her and her family extensively for this book. Many of her...
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"...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 minister and influence the fate of the world during World War II. But Churchill persevered, on a mission to achieve his purpose. God and Churchill tells the remarkable story of how one man, armed with belief in his divine destiny, embarked on a course to save Christian civilization when Adolf Hitler and...
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 CDs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
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World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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Examines the childhood, war years, political career, and personal life of the twentieth-century British statesman, soldier, and historian. Trailblazer, Winston Churchill, was the celebrated British prime minister who helped save Europe from Nazi rule during World War II. After completing his education in a less than stellar fashion, Churchill joined the British Army, where he developed his leadership skills. He inspired enormous respect and admiration...
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xx, 423 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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"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 fell to their knees. But there is also the Churchill who frequently inveighed against human rights, nationalism, and constitutional...
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A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
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2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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"He was an uninspired student who won the Nobel Prize for literature. He failed military school examinations twice--and then became Lord of the Admiralty. A disastrous decision during World War I threatened to ruin his political career, but he was named Prime Minister of Britain in 1940. The three programs in this encyclopedic collection explore Winston Churchill's extraordinary life and monumental legacy. Written and hosted by his official biographer,...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1983-2012
Physical Desc
v. : ill., maps, plates ; 25 cm.
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Details the fifty-eight years of a man whose ambitions and serious flaws made him one of the world's most powerful leaders, placing Churchill's prewar career against the backdrop of the collapse of the British Empire.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
"As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else...
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"Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts--in a first for a Churchill biographer--to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory...
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Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eric Larson 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 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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) Churchill's bodyguard: the newly discovered story of the man who stood watch over Britain's hero
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (10 hr., 11 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Winston Churchill's personal bodyguard for nearly 18 years, Walter H. Thompson saw history unfold firsthand. This program is based on the complete, uncensored manuscript of Walter H. Thompson, a Scotland Yard detective. This video gives you a behind the scenes look at the life and leadership of Winston Churchill.
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