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Divine cities volume 3
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English
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After the assassination of his former friend and ally, Prime Minister Shara Komayd, fugitive and exile Sigrud je Harvaldsson sets out on a mission of revenge.
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English
Description
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. In The...
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English
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Roberts adds materially to Churchill with of documents unknown or not open to other researchers, including notes of wartime counsels kept by King George VI. Churchill, he writes, "was born into a caste that held immense political and economic power in the largest empire in world history, and that had not yet become plagued by insecurity and self-doubt." Sometimes his overconfidence led to disaster -- others, it helped his nation steel itself for war....
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour’s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britain’s dominant...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 13
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English
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When a young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Gabriel Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems, and the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth.
6) Churchill
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English
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Often touted as the United Kingdom's greatest prime minister, Winston Churchill's uncanny leadership and decisiveness played a major role in future world affairs. From Churchill's days as a cavalryman to his pivotal role in World War II, historian Paul Johnson delivers a stunning history of the man who rallied Britain through its darkest hour.
7) Churchill
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Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
Description
Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma examines the life of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
8) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. In the mid-19th century, the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded...
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AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 CD (57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
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...
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English
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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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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
James C. Humes reveals shocking predictions made by Britain's most famous prime minister. Churchill didn't need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past to make his eerily accurate forecasts, including the rise of European fascism, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the exact day of his own death as he entered his final years.
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Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Unabridged.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler waged a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally, willing to fight to the end. Larson shows how...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A dual portrait of Winston Churchill and George Orwell focuses on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, describing how both suffered nearly fatal injuries before their vision and campaigns inspired action to preserve democracy throughout the world.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Spanning the years of 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester's monumental biography the Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany and continues through Churchill's fight against the rising tide of communism.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Writing a few months prior to her assassination, Bhutto explores the complicated history between the Middle East and the West. She traces the roots of international terrorism across the world, including American support for Pakistani general Zia-ul-Haq, who destroyed political parties, eliminated an independent judiciary, marginalized NGOs, suspended the protection of human rights, and aligned Pakistani intelligence agencies with the most radical...
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Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Interviews from 1975 to 1990 in which Margaret Thatcher talks about such things as her life in politics, memories of home, her first meeting with her future husband, and her worries when her son went missing in the Sahara Desert.
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