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The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448207831

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The Private Lives of Winston Churchill by John Pearson Pdf

From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an extraordinary biography of Winston Churchill, a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness. At the height of his power, he seemed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor, pride, and above all, tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply in the legacy of his birth-right, the heritage of his family, and the awesome responsibility of being born Churchill. In The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, first published in 1991, John Pearson takes us behind the myth of Churchill and deep into the psychology of a dynasty that some have called the most complicated Anglo-American family of this century. In doing so, he reveals, in rich portraits, some of the family's greatest, most charismatic, and most deeply troubled members and shows us the real, private Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill

Author : John Perry
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418555238

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Winston Churchill by John Perry Pdf

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience. Winston Churchill captivated the world with his voice and his writings. His books and speeches ooze with patriotism and faith in a just God. But he wasn’t always known for his oratory skills, his faith, or his ability to captivate. In fact, as a child, he was small for his age, accident-prone, and frequently sick. To make matters worse, he was stubborn and self-centered, had a lisp, and did poorly in school. Born to an aristocratic family, young Winston was whisked off to boarding school at an early age, ignored by his parents, and left in the care of a nanny, Elizabeth Everest. But Everest excelled where Winston’s own parents had failed him. She nurtured and encouraged him, and shared with him her own steadfast faith in God, shaping the views and vision of the persistent little English boy who would become one of the most influen­tial men in history.

A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II

Author : Michael Paterson
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780330747

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A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II by Michael Paterson Pdf

Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of the woman behind the crown? This book seeks to take a new look at this exhaustively-documented life and show how Queen Elizabeth became the person she is. Who, and what, have been the greatest influences upon her? What are her likes and dislikes? What are her hobbies? Who are her friends? What does she feel about the demands of duty and protocol? Is she really enjoying herself when she smiles during official events? How differently does she behave when out of the public eye? Examining the places in which she grew up or has lived, the training she received and her attitudes to significant events in national life, it presents a fresh view of one of recent history's most important figures. In recent years, Queen Elizabeth has become the longest-reigning monarch in our history and has cut back on commitments. Nevertheless she is still very active and has made some wise decisions about who takes over a number of her duties.

My Early Life

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 0850522579

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My Early Life by Winston Churchill Pdf

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.

Churchill

Author : Sebastian Haffner
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Churchill by Sebastian Haffner Pdf

Written in the tradition of Stefan Zweig’s biographical studies, Haffner’s Churchill is a concise, effective, warts-and-all analysis of one of the giants of the twentieth century. Beginning with a brief history of the Churchill family, Haffner examines the future Prime Minister’s childhood; his early failures in school and in politics; his indomitable energy and drive; how he managed to become an inspirational figure to anti-Nazis all over the world; and how he managed to seize success from the jaws of defeat over and over again. Compact, elegant and incisive, this is the one book about Churchill that is a must-read. “One of the most brilliant things of any length written about Churchill.” — The Times Literary Supplement “Fast-moving and perceptive.” — The (London) Times “A wonderful portrait of Churchill.” — Die Zeit “A ravishing biography.” — Der Spiegel “[A] fascinating psychological study of Britain’s greatest war leader... a pleasure to put on your bookshelf” — Tribune “His Meaning of Hitler published in 1978 remains a masterpiece of historiography. His Churchill biography gives the first indication of his great talent for brief, wonderfully graphic insights.” — Süddeutsche Zeitung “Of all [Haffner’s] books, this is the one that stays in my memory.” — Marcel Reich-Ranicki “[Haffner] was an ‘admirer of great men’ and among all the biographies of Winston Churchill his brief sketch of the man who ‘risked Britain in order to defeat Hitler’ is a model of historically empathetic veneration.” — Joachim Fest “Astute, short, analytical, like all Haffner’s work. Cuts away anything that is not bare essential, what remains stays with you for a lifetime.” — J. AB Sennef, Quora “What distinguishes this brilliant biography is its partisanship. It does not list facts in order and evaluate them. Every sentence is witness to the fact that the biographer loves this man with all his failings.” — Wolfgang Franssen, Belletristik Couch “A jewel. Haffner lived through the decisive years in Britain and gives a convincing description the fragile atmosphere in which Churchill fought his battles.” — Tarzan von Aquin “[Haffner was] one of the great historians and journalists of the last century.” —Andrew Roberts

Winston Churchill

Author : Mary Soames
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCSD:31822005218722

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Om den britiske politiker og forfatter (1874-1965) og hans arbejde som maler

Clementine Churchill

Author : Joan Hardwick
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 0719555523

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Clementine Churchill by Joan Hardwick Pdf

In this biography, Joan Hardwick explores why Clementine Churchill felt it necessary to protect an assumed persona by disguising her political conflicts with her husband, her questioning of the soundness of his judgement, her dislike of his extravagance and love of luxury, her disappointment at the lack of passion in her marriage and her dismay at her failure as a mother. She asks why Clementine Churchill was so concerned to present herself as a calm, confident and controlled person when she was in fact subject to violent fits of temper and jealousy which left her weak and debilitated. The author also questions why for so long periods of her life her proven abilities as an organizer and her talent for inspring trust in others were put aside.

Oblivion or Glory

Author : David Stafford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300248760

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Oblivion or Glory by David Stafford Pdf

“[The book’s] power lies in a vivid re-creation not only of Churchill’s public roles but also his private life—of good fortune but also family tragedy.” —The Wall Street Journal An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill’s political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of events that laid the foundations for his future success. Renowned Churchill scholar David Stafford delves into the statesman’s life in 1921, the year in which his political career revived. From his political negotiations in the Anglo-Irish treaty that created the Irish Free State to his tumultuous relationship with his “wild cousin” Clare Sheridan, sculptor of Lenin and subject of an MI5 investigation, this is an engaging portrait of this overlooked yet pivotal year in the great man’s life. “Sheds dazzling new light on both the man and the epoch.” —Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781–1997 “A brilliant portrayal of the triumphs and tribulations of Churchill’s middle age.” —Paul Addison, author of Churchill: The Unexpected Hero “Vividly adds perspectives and colour to a busy yet little known year of Churchill’s life that most biographies can only treat in monochrome.” —David Lough, author of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money “A fascinating and fluent account of Churchill’s efforts to win the peace and hold together the Empire.” —Lawrence James, author of Churchill and Empire

Character and Greatness of Winston Churchill

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684422883

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Character and Greatness of Winston Churchill by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

Winston Churchill was one of the most extraordinary leaders of the twentieth century. What enabled him to stand so steadfastly when all those around him seemed to turn back in fear? What enabled him to inspire whole nations to endure the unendurable and to achieve the unachievable when all those around him had already surrendered all hope? The Character and Greatness of Winston Churchill is a remarkable study of Churchill's leadership skill and answers these questions and more. The result is an account that is no less inspiring today than it was three-quarters of a century ago when the great man's shadow fell large across the world stage. According to Henry Kissinger, "Our age finds it difficult to come to grips with Churchill. The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be superstars rather than heroes. The distinction is crucial. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the ... future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success as a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of their inner values." Winston Churchill was a hero.

Churchill

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795337260

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Churchill by Martin Gilbert Pdf

“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

Winston Churchill

Author : Violet Bonham Carter
Publisher : William S. Konecky Associates
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000033795621

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An account of the public and private life of Winston Churchill.

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

Author : Gretchen Rubin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812971446

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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin Pdf

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.

No More Champagne

Author : David Lough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784081805

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No More Champagne by David Lough Pdf

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.

Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581826346

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Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

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.

Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality

Author : Richard M. Langworth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476628783

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Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality by Richard M. Langworth Pdf

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the author's fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.