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Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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.
27) Churchill & son
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph"--
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A character study of the most important Anglo-American friendship since FDR and Churchill. During their eight overlapping years in office, President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher worked together to promote lower taxes, deregulation, free trade, and an aggressive stance against the Soviet Union. But according to journalist Wapshott, the relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests. Drawing on interviews and recently declassified...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2012
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
788 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Esta autobiografía de Margaret Thatacher, única en su género por su veracidad, contundencia y amplia perspectiva histórica, expone además las convicciones de una firme mujer de gobierno, sus creencias, el perfeccionismo que la distinguió y su asombrosa determinación para enfrentar asuntos de estado.
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.
31) Churchill
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 MP3 CD (4 hr., 45 min.) : digital
Language
English
Description
Johnson explores the complex and fascinating character of Winston Churchill--the soldier, orator, and statesman who shined brightest during Britain's darkest hours.
32) 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
Series
Second World War volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1949
Edition
Chartwell ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 751 p. : maps, port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
34) 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
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Eric Larson delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. 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...
36) Churchill
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 course guidebook (ii, 71 pages ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288
Language
English
Description
Recounts Winston Churchill's second term as prime minister and his mission to win a lasting peace, waging war with both his closest colleagues and his most indispensable allies, the Americans, to persuade them to negotiate with the Soviets.
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.
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...
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