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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled nearly the entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of history walked a knife's edge. Bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier's new epic history, Three Days at the Brink, centers on these...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now,...
66) Churchill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at the Churchill legend, revealing the complexity of the real man who was soldier, adventurer, politician, author and arguably the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. Features never-before-seen family photographs and film.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses the life events and writings of Winston Churchill to examine the importance of constitutional limits on government and how the obstacles faced today by statesmen require a special high-level quality of leadership lacking in modern times.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended.
Author
Publisher
Critica
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
313 pages, 8 pages of plates ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xl, 673 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A joint profile of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their armed forces commanders Alan Brooke and George C. Marshall evaluates the pivotal ways in which they determined the strategies of allied forces during World War II, in an account that reveals their divergent agendas and tense efforts to collaborate or outmaneuver each other.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 496 pages : illustratons ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On a September day in 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the teeming crowd assembled on the airfield. Chamberlain had just returned from Munich, where he had averted the greatest crisis of the century. He had signed a peace agreement with Hitler, who could keep Czech territory but would never, he had sworn, take up arms against France and Great Britain. The cost had been high, but Chamberlain's eleventh-hour...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a wider battle in southern...
74) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning historian offers a dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Language
English
Description
"As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world. The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world. The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
673 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin...
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