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21) Into the storm
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
390 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The mayor of London and former Spectator editor challenges popular misconceptions to assess Churchill's enduring influence on the world, discussing the many contradictions of his life and his considerable political and military achievements.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A leading conservative thinker presents a revisionist history of the twentieth century that argues that Churchill's actions propelled Britain into two World Wars, a situation that led to the collapse of the British empire and ended Europe's global dominance.
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[xix, 1105] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts--in a first for a Churchill biographer--to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory...
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1983-2012
Physical Desc
v. : ill., maps, plates ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the fifty-eight years of a man whose ambitions and serious flaws made him one of the world's most powerful leaders, placing Churchill's prewar career against the backdrop of the collapse of the British Empire.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 172 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Winston Churchill suffered most severely from his 'black dog' he took to painting in order to express the inexpressible. Throughout his life he would withdraw to paint. His paintings throw fascinating light upon his character and its vicissitudes and thus are key to understanding his personality as a great statesman. As fellow artist Sir Oswald Birley said of him: 'If Churchill had given the time to art that he has given to politics, he would...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 624 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the ambitious, brave, and arrogant English family that gave the world Winston Churchill, describing generations of ancestors who were reckless womanizers but also triumphant military leaders all saddled with the upkeep of the family palace, Blenheim.
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