| Description |
xix, 1,105 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), genealogical tables ; 25 cm. |
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text/still image/unmediated/volume/ |
| Subject |
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. http://isni.org/isni/0000000120966628.
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Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Biography. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 983-1006) and index. |
| Contents |
A Famous name : November 1874 - January 1895 -- Ambition under fire : January 1895 - July 1898 -- From Omdurman to Oldham via Pretoria : August 1898 - October 1900 -- Crossing the floor : October 1900 - December 1905 -- Liberal imperialist : January 1906 - April 1908 -- Love and liberalism : April 1908 - February 1910 -- Home secretary : February 1910 - September 1911 -- First Lord of the Admiralty : October 1911 - August 1914 -- ̀This glorious, delicious war' : August 1914 - March 1915 -- Gallipoli : March - November 1915 -- Plug Street to victory : November 1915 - November 1918 -- Coalition politics : November 1918 - November 1921 -- Redemption : November 1922 - May 1926 -- Crash : June 1926 - January 1931 -- Into the wilderness : January 1931 - October 1933 -- Sounding the alarm : October 1933 - March 1936 -- Apotheosis of appeasement : March 1936 - October 1938 -- Vindication : October 1938 - September 1939 -- ̀Winston is back' : September 1939 - May 1940 -- Seizing the premiership : May 1940 --The fall of France : May - June 1940 --The Battle of Britain : June - September 1940 --The Blitz : September 1940 - January 1941 -- ̀Keep buggering on' : January - June 1941 -- ̀Being met together' : June 1941 - January 1942 -- Disaster : January - June 1942 -- Desert victory : June - November 1942 -- ̀One continent redeemed' : November 1942 - September 1943 --The hard underbelly : September 1943 - June 1944 -- Liberation : June 1944 - January 1945 -- Victory and defeat : January - July 1945 -- Opposition : August 1945 - October 1951 -- Indian summer : October 1951 - April 1955 -- ̀Long sunset' : April 1955 - January 1965. |
| Summary |
A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of The Greatest Briton, by one of Britain's best-selling historians. |
| LC # |
DA566.9.C5 R63 2018 |
| ISBN |
0241205638 hardcover |
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9780241205631 hardcover |
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