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Churchill's Confidant

Richard Steyn
Churchill s Confidant Book PDF

Author : Richard Steyn
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472140753

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Churchill's Confidant by Richard Steyn Pdf

Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the aesthetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Both were men of exceptional talents and achievements and, between them, the pair had to grapple with some of the twentieth century's most intractable issues, not least of which the task of restoring peace and prosperity to Europe after two of mankind's bloodiest wars. Drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men, Richard Steyn presents a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.

Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill

Curt Zoller,Richard M. Langworth
Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S Churchill Book PDF

Author : Curt Zoller,Richard M. Langworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317476603

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Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill by Curt Zoller,Richard M. Langworth Pdf

This unique resource will be an enormous aid and impetus to Churchill studies. It lists over 600 works, with annotations, and includes sections listing an additional 5,900 entries covering book reviews, significant articles, and chapters from books. Separate author and title indexes will allow the user to locate specific entries. The book's aim is to direct students, researchers, and bibliophiles to the entire corpus of works about Churchill.

Winston Churchill and Emery Reves

Winston Churchill,Emery Reves,Martin Gilbert
Winston Churchill and Emery Reves Book PDF

Author : Winston Churchill,Emery Reves,Martin Gilbert
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292712014

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Winston Churchill and Emery Reves by Winston Churchill,Emery Reves,Martin Gilbert Pdf

Early in 1937, the enterprising owner of an independent press service called Cooperation made Winston Churchill an irresistible offer. He would place Churchill's articles on current world events in major newspapers across Europe - and for significantly more money than Churchill was making through his present agent. So began a profitable business relationship that grew over time into an enduring personal friendship. This book chronicles that relationship through the entire body of correspondence between Winston Churchill and Emery Reves. It preserves a compelling record of how each man used the other's talents to forward a cause that passionately engaged them both - the spread of democratic ideals in a post-totalitarian world.

Churchill and Empire

Lawrence James
Churchill and Empire Book PDF

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297869153

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Churchill and Empire by Lawrence James Pdf

A genuinely original biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. 'A superb history of a memorable subject' Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's first experience of the Empire was serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan. His attitude towards the Empire at the time was the stereotypical Victorian paternalistic approach - a combination of feeling responsible and feeling superior. Conscious even then of his political career ahead, Churchill's natural benevolence towards the Empire was occasionally overruled for political reasons, and he found himself reluctantly supporting - or at least not publicly condemning - British atrocities. As a politician he consistently relied on the Empire for support during crises, but was angered by any demands for nationalisation. He held what many would regard today as racist views, in that he felt that some nationalities were superior to others, but he didn't regard those positions as fixed. His (some might say obsequious) relationship with America reflected that view. America was a former colony where the natives had become worthy to rule themselves, but - he felt - still had that tie to Britain. Thus he overlooked the frequently expressed American view that the Empire was a hangover from a bygone era of colonisation, and reflected poorly on Britain's ability to conduct herself as a political power in the current world order. This outmoded attitude was one of the reasons the British voters rejected him after a Second World War in which - it was universally felt - he had led the country brilliantly. His attitude remained Victorian in a world that was shaping up very differently. However, it would be a mistake to consider Churchill merely as an anachronistic soldier. He grasped the problems of the Cold War immediately, believing that immature nations prematurely given independence would be more likely to be sucked into the vortex of Communism. This view chimed with American foreign policy, and made the Americans rather more pragmatic about their demands for self-governance for Empire countries. Lawrence James has written a fascinating portrait of an endlessly interesting statesman - and one that includes tantalising vignettes about his penchants for silk underwear and champagne.

Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship

Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh
Churchill and the Anglo American Special Relationship Book PDF

Author : Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317283720

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Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship by Alan P. Dobson,Steve Marsh Pdf

This book examines Winston Churchill’s role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship. Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchill’s contribution to establishing the Anglo–American special relationship. Marking the seventieth anniversary of Churchill’s pronouncement in 1946 of that special relationship in his famous Iron Curtain speech, the book provides new insights into old debates by drawing upon approaches and disciplines that have hitherto been marginalised or neglected. The book foregrounds agency, culture, values, ideas and the construction and representation of special Anglo–American relations, past and present. The volume covers two main themes. Firstly, it identifies key influences upon Churchill as he developed his political career, especially processes and patterns of Anglo–American convergence prior to and during World War Two. Second, it provides insights into how Churchill sought to promote a post-war Anglo–American special relationship, how he discursively constructed it and how he has remained central to that narrative to the present day. From this analysis emerges new understanding of the raw material from which Churchill conjured special UK–US relations and of how his conceptualisation of that special relationship has been shaped and re-shaped in the decades after 1946. This book will be of much interest to students of Anglo–American relations, Cold War Studies, foreign policy, international history and IR in general.

Churchill and Australia

Graham Freudenberg
Churchill and Australia Book PDF

Author : Graham Freudenberg
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1742623670

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Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg Pdf

"Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston Churchill, as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin described him, 'the saviour of his country, the largest human being of his time'." Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th Century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in the First War, and the disaster of Singapore in the Second. Churchill the patrician, descendant of dukes, could not appreciate Australia's dearly held egalitarianism, while Churchill the imperial statesman was impatient, and at times intolerant, of Australia's growing urge towards independence. The relationship between the two would span the first 50 tumultuous years of the 20th Century, from the Boer War through to opening salvoes of the Cold War, and act as a fascinating backdrop to Australia's maturity from a collection of autonomous colonies to full nationhood. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, and relying on exhaustive research and a true insider's knowledge of the political world, this is history written at its compelling best. Winner of the Walkley Award for Non-fiction 2008

The Churchills: In Love and War

Mary S. Lovell
The Churchills In Love and War Book PDF

Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393342253

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The Churchills: In Love and War by Mary S. Lovell Pdf

Lovell presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill.

Nursing Churchill

Jill Rose
Nursing Churchill Book PDF

Author : Jill Rose
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445677354

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Nursing Churchill by Jill Rose Pdf

A fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.

Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory

Michael Korda
Alone Britain Churchill and Dunkirk Defeat into Victory Book PDF

Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491337

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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory by Michael Korda Pdf

One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this “superb and panoramic” (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk. No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as “great narrative skill and superb delineation” (David McCullough) as Michael Korda, the historian and legendary book editor. As dramatized in Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk, May 1940 was a month like no other: Germany’s war machine blazed into France, the impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast canvas, best-selling author Michael Korda relates his own personal story, “by turns charming, powerful and poignant” (Minneapolis Star Tribune): that of a six-year-old boy from a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Weaving together “eyewitness detail and a fine sense of drama” (Boston Globe) to form an epic of remarkable originality, Alone movingly captures a moment of historic triumph—when an unlikely flotilla of destroyers brought 300,000 men home to safety.

Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941

Martin Gilbert
Winston S Churchill Finest Hour 1939 1941 Book PDF

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795344633

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Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 by Martin Gilbert Pdf

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

Churchill, Roosevelt and India

Auriol Weigold
Churchill Roosevelt and India Book PDF

Author : Auriol Weigold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135856052

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Churchill, Roosevelt and India by Auriol Weigold Pdf

As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold adroitly unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, in the process, revealing the campaign’s outcomes for nationalist Indians. In 1942 Sir Stafford Cripps went to India to offer limited self-government for the duration of the war. However, when negotiations between Churchill and his newly convened India Committee collapsed, the failure of the talks was publicized in the United States as a matter of Indian intransigence and not Britain’s failure to negotiate—a spin of the news that critically affected public opinion. Relying upon extensive archival research, Weigold exposes the gap between Britain’s propaganda account and both the official and unofficial records of the course the negotiations took. Weigold concludes that during the drafting, progress and planned failure of Cripps’ Offer, this episode in the imperial endgame revolved around Churchill and Roosevelt, leaving Indian leaders without influence over their immediate political future.

Hitler and Churchill

Andrew Roberts
Hitler and Churchill Book PDF

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297865254

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Hitler and Churchill by Andrew Roberts Pdf

'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts examines their different styles of leadership and draws parallels with rulers from other eras. He also looks at the way Hitler and Churchill estimated each other as leaders, and how it affected the outcome of the war. In a world that is as dependent on leadership as any earlier age, HITLER AND CHURCHILL asks searching questions about our need to be led. In doing so, Andrew Roberts forces us to re-examine the way that we look at those who take decisions for us.

Churchill 1940-1945

Walter Reid
Churchill 1940 1945 Book PDF

Author : Walter Reid
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857901262

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Churchill 1940-1945 by Walter Reid Pdf

In April 1945, Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!' When he became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 Churchill was without allies. Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain saved Britain from immediate defeat, but it was evident that Britain alone could never win the war. Churchill looked to America. He said that until Pearl Harbor 'no lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt'. But would Roosevelt have entered the war if Pearl Harbor had not taken place? Until then his actions were ambivalent, and even afterwards America's policy was largely shaped by self-interest and her idea of what a post-war world should be like.Lend-Lease, for instance, was far from what Churchill publicly described as 'the most unsordid act in the history of any nation', but rather a tool of American policy. Churchill's account of relations with his allies and associates was sanitised for the historical record and has been accepted uncritically. In reality he had to battle with the generals and the CIGS, Tory backbenchers and the War Cabinet, de Gaulle and the Free French and - above all - the Americans. Even his wife, Clementine, could on occasions be remarkably unsupportive. He told his secretary, 'The difficulty is not in winning the war; it is in persuading people to let you win it - persuading fools'. Walter Reid, the author of several acclaimed works on 20th-century military history, brings together the result of recent research to create a powerful narrative which reveals how much time and energy was devoted to fighting the war that was excluded from the official accounts, the war with the allies.

Churchill and Roosevelt: The Big Sleepover at the White House

James Mikel Wilson
Churchill and Roosevelt The Big Sleepover at the White House Book PDF

Author : James Mikel Wilson
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619849594

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Churchill and Roosevelt: The Big Sleepover at the White House by James Mikel Wilson Pdf

"Churchill and Roosevelt: The Big Sleepover at the White House" received the 2018 Author Academy Award in Historical Fiction. A London playwright has converted the work to a stage play with plans to premiere in England in 2019 or early 2020. This book was written for those who enjoy history and political intrigue. It will appeal to those who enjoy reading about leadership, particularly in an arena where differences in political views, temperament, and agenda had to be overcome. Without collaboration and compromise, the world as we presently know it might be considerably different. Even though the story occurred over 75 years ago, the protagonists speak in first person voice, not knowing the outcome of the crisis they must confront. Readers may not have known that Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt two weeks after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt insisted that Winston sleep in the White House. The two men had much in common—more than they realized. There are plenty of other surprises along the way—a chance encounter with Adolph Hitler, a fishing expedition, a shared mentor, a favorite movie, a movie producer spy, Commander Ian Fleming’s visit to the Oval Office, and canine diplomacy to name but a few. During their time together, Churchill and Roosevelt shared many private moments as they forged a bond of friendship, trust, and cooperation that enabled them to defeat their countries’ common enemies. How their relationship evolved is dramatized and personified in this book. Most of the narrative is based on documentation, but what went on behind the view of the public eye is subject to the imagination and suspense. The author fleshes out the story with conversations that may have occurred over the course of three weeks but not necessarily provable. Lastly, the writer sets out to humanize these two epic leaders of the 20th century. He reveals not only their fears and tears but also their joys, humor, passions, temperaments, and schemes. He attempts to “break into their minds” as the two men join together to save the Western world from ruin. The author has also published: “Paw Tracks Here and Abroad: A Dog’s Tale,” (2014) and “Mr. Froggy’s Dilemma,” (2018). Website: www.jamesmikelwilson.com

Winston & Clementine: The Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills

Richard Hough
Winston Clementine The Triumphs Tragedies of the Churchills Book PDF

Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Winston & Clementine: The Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills by Richard Hough Pdf

Winston Churchill, Britain’s great statesman, and Clementine, his beautiful, stalwart wife, went together through many crises to command center stage in their country’s finest hour during World War II. This double biography tells the story of this celebrated couple whose marriage endured, without scandal, for 57 years, until Churchill’s death in 1965. Their intense relationship would make tabloid headlines, but the public didn’t see the conflicts and clashes of two strong-willed, stubborn individuals whose love for each other withstood the tests of war and family tragedy — and whose fierce differences were essential to their triumph. “A grand profile in charisma.” — Chris Goodrich, Los Angeles Times “A grand historical romance.” — Booklist “A splendidly told tale... Hough is a charming writer and his admiration for his subject so genuine that readers will find his work irresistible.” — Publishers Weekly