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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 President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. Drawing...
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Heroes of Liberty
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Margaret Thatcher was born in a British town called Grantham. Her family owned a grocery store and lived in an apartment above it. Young Margaret learned a lot from how the shop was run. When she became prime minister, she would put those lessons to good use. It was no easy thing to do. But Margaret Thatcher was one of the toughest politicians of her time. After all, it was not for nothing that they called her the Iron Lady."--
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Regnery History
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"This third and climactic volume (1987-2013) of Charles Moore's authorized biography gives the definitive account of Margaret Thatcher's third term in office and her life after it. Three stories run through the whole book. The first is Mrs. Thatcher's dominance of her government in almost every domestic field, but also her growing intolerance of dissent, the increasing alienation of her most senior ministers over Europe and the fatal corrosion that...
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2015
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English
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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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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"May 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill must deal with this horror--as well as a skeptical king, a party plotting against him, and an unprepared public. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up...
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"When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"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...
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Heroes of Liberty
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born to an American mother and a British aristocratic father. From very early on in life he believed that destiny had chosen him for a great task. It turned out he was right. Never in his lifetime was there a greater, more important task than the fight against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Churchill was among the first to understand this. Had he not bravely stood up to Hitler until the United States came...
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