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Language
English
Description
Charismatic, dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell unites eminent statesman Winston Churchill at the end of his career and the vulnerable young London librarian Esther Hammerhans.Can they withstand Mr. Chartwell's strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives? Can they even explain who or what he is and why he has come to visit?
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This engaging biography invites readers to dinner with Winston Churchill and his political guests in the years surrounding WWII.
A friend once said of Winston Churchill: "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But for Churchill, dinners were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the table both as a stage on which
12) Mr. Churchill
Author
Publisher
Reynal & Hitchcock
Pub. Date
[1942]
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) An eightieth year tribute to Winston Churchill: statesman, historian, sportsman, soldier, and orator
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1954.
Physical Desc
68 pages :bill. (some color) ; 37 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves in the grip of the Soviets. The Red Army occupied a large German territory, and the Kremlin was manipulating post-war food shortages, labor disputes, and social unrest in Greece, France, and Italy.
Having spent his "wilderness years" in the late 1930s...
Having spent his "wilderness years" in the late 1930s...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (12 hr., 21 min.))
Language
English
Description
Many indeed, are the biographies of Winston Churchill, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. But what was that influence and how did he use it in the furtherance of his and his country's ambitions? For the first time, Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power. His thirst for power stirred political controversy...
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