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Author : InRead Team
Publisher : by Mocktime Publication
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Description: This Book provides a quick glimpse about the life of Winston Churchill
Author : David Lough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784081805
The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances – and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged. With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill's private records, David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill's private finances and business affairs. As he reveals the scale of Churchill's financial risk-taking, combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners, the links between the private man and public figure become clear.
Author : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324002772
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 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 the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England. And yet Churchill was also very often in the wrong: he brazenly contradicted his own previous political stances, was a disastrous military strategist, and inspired dislike and distrust through much of his life. Before 1939 he doubted the efficacy of tank and submarine warfare, opposed the bombing of cities only to reverse his position, shamelessly exploited the researchers and ghostwriters who wrote much of the journalism and the books published so lucratively under his name, and had an inordinate fondness for alcohol that once found him drinking whisky before breakfast. When he was appointed to the cabinet for the first time in 1908, a perceptive journalist called him “the most interesting problem of personal speculation in English politics.” More than a hundred years later, he remains a source of adulation, as well as misunderstanding. This revelatory new book takes on Churchill in his entirety, separating the man from the myth that he so carefully cultivated, and scrutinizing his legacy on both sides of the Atlantic. In effervescent prose, shot through with sly wit, Geoffrey Wheatcroft illuminates key moments and controversies in Churchill’s career—from the tragedy of Gallipoli, to his shocking imperialist and racist attitudes, dealings with Ireland, support for Zionism, and complicated engagement with European integration. Charting the evolution and appropriation of Churchill’s reputation through to the present day, Churchill’s Shadow colorfully renders the nuance and complexity of this giant of modern politics.
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241205648
A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally supermen exist on this earth.'
Author : Gretchen Rubin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812971446
A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICK A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER 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. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore. 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. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.
Author : InRead Team
Publisher : by Mocktime Publication
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Description: This Book provides a quick glimpse about the life of Frank Sinatra
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795337260
“A richly textured and deeply moving portrait of greatness” (Los Angeles Times). In this masterful book, prize-winning historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert weaves together the research from his eight-volume biography of the elder statesman into one single volume, and includes new information unavailable at the time of the original work’s publication. Spanning Churchill’s youth, education, and early military career, his journalistic work, and the arc of his political leadership, Churchill: A Life details the great man’s indelible contribution to Britain’s foreign policy and internal social reform. With eyewitness accounts and interviews with Churchill’s contemporaries, including friends, family members, and career adversaries, it provides a revealing picture of the personal life, character, ambition, and drive of one of the world’s most remarkable leaders. “A full and rounded examination of Churchill’s life, both in its personal and political aspects . . . Gilbert describes the painful decade of Churchill’s political exile (1929–1939) and shows how it strengthened him and prepared him for his role in the ‘hour of supreme crisis’ as Britain’s wartime leader. A lucid, comprehensive and authoritative life of the man considered by many to have been the outstanding public figure of the 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly “Mr. Gilbert’s job was to bring alive before his readers a man of extraordinary genius and scarcely less extraordinary destiny. He has done so triumphantly.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Michael Shelden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451609929
An account of the World War II prime minister's early career covers his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reforms, and his lesser-known romantic pursuits.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 0850522579
This memoir was first published in 1930 and describes the author's school days, his time in the Army, his experiences as a war correspondent and his first years as a member of Parliament.
Author : René Kraus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:4064066372996
René Kraus's 'Winston Churchill, A Biography' provides an in-depth look into the life and career of one of the most influential political leaders of the 20th century. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, Kraus presents a detailed account of Churchill's rise to power, his leadership during World War II, and his lasting impact on British politics. The book is written in a scholarly and engaging style, making it accessible to both academics and general readers interested in history. With its comprehensive coverage of Churchill's personal and political life, the biography offers valuable insights into the mindset of a great statesman. René Kraus's meticulous research and analytical approach shed new light on Churchill's complex character and decision-making process, making this biography a must-read for anyone interested in the history of modern Britain and the role of leadership in times of crisis.
Author : Michael McMenamin,Curt J. Zoller
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781506910536
Winston Churchill was only 20 when he met the man whom he credited, more than any other, with shaping him as a statesman and an orator. As Churchill wrote: “I regard his as the biggest and most original mind I have ever met. When I was a young man, he instantly gained my confidence and I feel that I owe the best things in my life to him.” That man was Bourke Cockran, a charismatic Irish-born Democratic Congressman from New York City, acclaimed by his peers as the greatest orator in the Gilded Age of politics. Following the death of Winston’s father, Lord Randolph in 1895, Cockran who as a widower, became the lover of Churchill’s mother, the beautiful American-born heiress Jennie Jerome, who persuaded Cockran to take her son under his wing. Churchill, Cockran, Randolph, Politics, British, Prime Minister, New York, Democratic Congressman, Young Life, Mentor, American
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1521003165
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 : Vincent Delmas,François Kersaudy
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781784385132
“A wholly original and fresh approach to historical biography. Churchill would have been delighted to be a comic book hero!” —Phil Reed, Emeritus Director, Churchill War Rooms This innovative graphic biography of Winston Churchill tells his extraordinary story, from his upbringing, through his military exploits and experience of the First World War, to his pivotal role in the Second World War. It explores the details of Churchill’s life within its historical and political context and brings the story to vivid life with precision, clarity and stunning visuals. With a foreword by Andrew Roberts, the biography is followed by extensive background information. Beautifully drawn, bursting with facts, and highly accessible, this graphic biography will introduce a new generation of readers to Churchill’s incredible career and important legacy. “This biography presents Churchill’s part in this conflict in a detailed yet inventive manner, making this accessible for people of all ages and knowledge.” —Comic-Watch “A highly original approach, using the comic strip style to tell his story. With magnificent artwork and a lively text, and a foreword by the historian and biography Andrew Roberts, it captures all the drama and excitement of his long life up to the victory over Nazi Germany.” —Leo McKinstry, author of Attlee and Churchill “A full and wholly fair representation of the most adventurous life in the history of British politics . . . there is not a word I would have changed in the text of this excellent graphical account.” —Andrew Roberts, New York Times-bestselling author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny “A novel and riveting re-telling of the Churchill legend.” —Professor Gary Sheffield
Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581826346
Winston Churchill's life was certainly eventful, and this book presents many of the most fascinating incidents from it, including his teenage prediction that he would one day become defender of England in a horrible future war, his capture and escape from the Boers, his secret heart attack, and many more.
Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300206234
“An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader…many of [these] nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies.”—TheWall Street Journal This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we haven’t known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story and the decisions he made throughout his political life. In this expansive literary biography, Rose provides an analysis of Churchill’s writings and their reception (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and was a best-selling author), and a chronicle of his dealings with publishers, editors, literary agents, and censors. The book also identifies an array of authors who shaped Churchill’s own writings and politics: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Rose investigates the effect of Churchill’s passion for theater on his approach to reportage, memoirs, and historical works. Perhaps most remarkably, Rose reveals the unmistakable influence of Churchill’s reading on every important episode of his public life, including his championship of social reform, plans for the Gallipoli invasion, command during the Blitz, crusade for Zionism, and efforts to prevent a nuclear arms race. Finally, Rose traces the significance of Churchill’s writings to later generations of politicians—among them President John F. Kennedy as he struggled to extricate the U.S. from the Cuban Missile Crisis. “Immensely enjoyable…This gracefully written book is an original and textured study of Churchill’s imagination.”—The Washington Post
