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"Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribesmen on the North West Frontier-- the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry lieutenant, wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. The Story of the Malakand Field Force, published in 1898, was Churchill's first book and, a hundred years...
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Norman Brook was Cabinet Under Secretary during the Second World War and took personal, handwritten notes of the exchanges between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his ministers. The BBC gained exclusive access to his notebooks, and journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler recreates the discussions, concerns--and disagreements--of those cabinet meetings. He narrates this compelling drama-documentary that was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4--the...
286) La dama de la guerra
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Londres, 1909. La joven y recién casada Clementine Hoizer desciende los escalones de un tren del brazo de su marido, Winston Churchill. En medio de la muchedumbre que lo aclama, surge una mujer furiosa que empuja a Winston hacia las vías en el preciso momento en que un tren está por pasar, pero justo antes de que caiga, Clementine logra tomarlo del saco... Esta, sin embargo, no será la última vez que le salve la vida a su esposo. La dama de la...
287) Churchill
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Examines the life of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
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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...
291) Churchill's empire
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"Churchill's image is as an imperial die-hard, implacably opposed to colonial freedom. However, his relationship to Empire is far more complex and ambiguous. Written by the acclaimed young historian Richard Toye, this absorbing book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of Churchill's lifelong involvement with Empire, from his childhood schooldays to his final premiership in the 1950s. Combining a lightness of touch and surprising detail...
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Sir Winston Churchill bestrode the 20th Century. He held many political and cabinet positions including Home Secretary from 1910 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for War. However it was on 10th May 1940 when Churchill became Prime Minister and took control of Britain's war effort that he finally sealed his place in history.
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Explore the greatest orators throughout history and relive their most memorable speeches, both for the brilliance of their words and for how they defined that particular moment in history. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and former U.S. Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman are the focus in this second volume.
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Presents an account of the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister and how he met the challenges of the Blitzkrieg.
"Maj 1940 roku. Trwa wojna, demokracje europejskie upadają na Belgię, Holandię i Francję, a angielska opinia publiczna nadal nie rozumie, że świat stanął nad przepaścią. Zaledwie kilka dni po objęciu stanowiska premiera Winston Churchill ma przed sobą trudny wybór -- negocjować z...
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"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...
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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...
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"Winston Churchill was no stranger to storms. They had engulfed him in various ways throughout his long career and he had always turned to face them with jutting jaw and indomitable spirit. Dark clouds had hovered over him from the moment he became Britain's Prime Minister in May 1940. Now, fifteen harrowing months later, he was setting out to meet President Franklin Roosevelt, the one man who could offer real assistance in his hour of need. And another...
299) Churchill and war
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"Winston Churchill saved Britain and Europe by his incomparable leadership in the Second World War. His involvement in war, however, stretched over a far longer period and was one of the main themes of his long life. Cavalryman at Omdurman, infantry colonel in the Trenches, First Lord of the Admiralty, as well as wartime Prime Minister, he wrote copiously about war as war correspondent, journalist and historian. Personally brave, he was both excited...
300) The Boer War
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"The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and two insignificant Boer republics in southern Africa was enormous. But, against all expectation, it took the British every effort and a huge sum of...
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