Winston Churchill And Mackenzie King

Author : Terry Reardon
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459705913

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Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King by Terry Reardon Pdf

The story of the complex relationship between two world leaders during one of the greatest crises in human history. Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King had much in common. Both forged long parliamentary careers, and each led his country to victory in World War II. A BBC poll deemed Winston Churchill the greatest Briton of all time, and Mackenzie King has been judged by a group of historians as the greatest Canadian prime minister. Their parallel careers fostered a working relationship that lasted almost fifty years. It was not always an easy relationship, however. Churchill, famous for his drink and cigars, was impetuous and charismatic, an extrovert; King, a teetotaller during WWII, was noted for considering all options before cautiously proceeding. Fate threw this ill-matched pair together. For the first time, the vital relationship between these two very different men is explored in depth. It is the story not just of two extraordinary leaders, but also of the changing bonds between Britain and Canada.

Author : Neville Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989555268

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The Third Man by Neville Thompson Pdf

The relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was among the most momentous--and mysterious--in history. The story of how these fiercely independent leaders worked together to defeat Hitler's Germany has been divined mainly from their cautious letters and the comments of staffers. Meanwhile, the detailed record of their fellow head of government, Canadian Prime Minister William L. Mackenzie King, who knew each of them better than they knew each other, has been largely overlooked. A sublime diplomat, King was determined, as leader of the largest British Dominion and America's closest neighbor, to serve as a lynchpin between the great powers. Churchill and Roosevelt both came to rely upon him as their next most important ally, routinely confiding in him and never suspecting that he was meticulously recording every word, prayer, slight, and tic from their countless interactions in his voluminous unpublished diary. The Third Man casts an intimate new light on the most important figures of the twentieth century and their historic partnership.

Author : Allan Levine
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553659082

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King by Allan Levine Pdf

William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions. At the same time, he was insecure, craved flattery, became upset at minor criticism, and was prone to fantasy—especially about the Tory conspiracy against him. King loosened the Imperial connection with Britain and was wary of American military and economic power. Yet he loved all things British and acted like a praised schoolboy when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill or U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt treated him as an equal. This first major biography of Mackenzie King in 30 years mines the pages of his remarkable diary, at 30,000 pages one of the most significant and revealing political documents in Canada’s history and a guide to the deep and often moving inner conflicts that haunted Mackenzie King. With animated prose and a subtle wit, Allan Levine draws a multidimensional portrait of this most compelling of politicians.

Author : William Lyon Mackenzie King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:797130560

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Canada and the War by William Lyon Mackenzie King Pdf

Author : George Henry Wilkinson,Sir George Henry Wilkinson,William Lyon Mackenzie King,Winston Churchill,Canada. Wartime Information Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Canada
ISBN : IND:30000133538466

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Canada and the War by George Henry Wilkinson,Sir George Henry Wilkinson,William Lyon Mackenzie King,Winston Churchill,Canada. Wartime Information Board Pdf

Author : David Dilks,Richard Dilks
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120926022

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The Great Dominion by David Dilks,Richard Dilks Pdf

Through newspaper accounts of the time, Churchill's own speeches, and more recent research, eminent British historian David Dilks illuminates Churchill's visits to the Commonwealth country he knew best.

Author : William Lyon Mackenzie King,Canada. Prime Minister's Office,Sir Winston Churchill,Canada. Prime Minister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:270882912

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Proceedings on the Occasion of an Address by Rt. Hon. W.L., Mackenzie King, M.P. Prime Minister of Canada to the Members of Both Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by William Lyon Mackenzie King,Canada. Prime Minister's Office,Sir Winston Churchill,Canada. Prime Minister Pdf

Author : Emil Ludwig
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : UVA:X000691925

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Mackenzie King by Emil Ludwig Pdf

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307374868

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The Great Depression by Pierre Berton Pdf

Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation. The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. With formidable story-telling powers, Berton reconstructs its engrossing events vividly: the Regina Riot, the Great Birth Control Trial, the black blizzards of the dust bowl and the rise of Social Credit. The extraordinary cast of characters includes Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who praised Hitler and Mussolini but thought Winston Churchill "one of the most dangerous men I have ever known"; Maurice Duplessis, who padlocked the homes of private citizens for their political opinions; and Tim Buck, the Communist leader who narrowly escaped murder in Kingston Penitentiary. In this #1 best-selling book, Berton proves that Canada's political leaders failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with the mass unemployment, drought and despair. A child of the era, he writes passionately of people starving in the midst of plenty.

Author : Canada. Prime Minister's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Imperial federation
ISBN : OCLC:1087122601

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Canada and the War by Canada. Prime Minister's Office Pdf

Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199297436

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Churchill by Paul Addison Pdf

"In this incisive biography, Paul Addison examines both the life of the most iconic figure in twentieth-century British history, and the battle over his reputation, which continues to this day."--Jacket.

Author : Charles Perry Stacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000428172

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Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle by Charles Perry Stacey Pdf

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,William Lyon Mackenzie King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:816850855

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Proceedings on the Occasion of an Address by W.L. Mackenzie King to the Members of Both Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,William Lyon Mackenzie King Pdf

Author : Richard Steyn
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472140761

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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.

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820329406

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The Hanging of Angélique by Afua Cooper Pdf

New light is shed on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada through this portrait of slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, who in 1734 was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for starting a fire that destroyed more than forty Montreal buildings. Simultaneous.