Churchill A Study in Greatness

Name: Churchill A Study in Greatness
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ISBN: 9780195161397

ISBN-10: 0195161394

ISBN-13: 9780195161397

Edition: 2003

Authors: Geoffrey Best

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One of the glorious triumvirate of World War II and founder of the strong Anglo-American friendship that is still apparent today, Winston Churchill stands out in history as a man who led his country through one of its most difficult times, with all of the steadfastness of a fierce and loyal bulldog. Churchill was already recognized as the most diversely gifted man in British politics before, at the ripe old age of 66, he suddenly emerged as a figure of world importance. Becoming Prime Minister on the very day in 1940 that Hitler invaded France and the Low Countries, he braced the British people to continue fighting and even to counterattack the, up to that point, all-victorious Germans. A…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Illustrations


Prologue



Unwillingly to School



Willingly to War



Clementine and the Commons



Board of Trade and Home Office



First Lord of the Admiralty



The Dardanelles



Recovery



Bolsheviks and Irishmen



Eastern Questions



Tory Chancellor



Empire and India



Chartwell and Hitler



'Winston is Back!'



His Finest Hour



Democratic Warlord



'Action This Day'



America and Roosevelt



Special Operations and Bombing Offensive



France and de Gaulle



Russia and Stalin



Victory Overcast



Iron Curtain



Summitry and the Bomb



Return to Downing Street



Sunset and Nightfall



Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index