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Last lion (William Manchester) volume 1
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Spanning the years of 1932-1940, this second volume in Manchester's monumental biography, The Last Lion, continues the exploration of Winston Churchill's life during his "wilderness years" outside of government in the early 1930s. Also discussed is Churchill's role in the abdication of King Edward VIII, the years leading up to World War Two, and Churchill's campaign for Prime Minister in 1939.
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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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"A new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader. Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and myth, authored by the man himself. In Mirrors of Greatness, prizewinning historian David Reynolds reevaluates...
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Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs Thatcher has been the subject of both adulation and vilification. In Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy, the leading historian Sir David Cannadine sets Margaret Thatcher in the context of recent...
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Winston Churchill's quest for his inner self took two forms: a constant thirst for exotic travel and a passion for the exuberance of painting and the beauty of words. His granddaughter, Celia Sandys, traveled extensively with Churchill towards the end of his life. Now, in this intimate portrait, she follows in her grandfather's footsteps, traveling to France, Cuba, South Africa, the United States, Egypt and Morocco to discover the real man behind...
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