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A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the United States--before returning to their cherished homeland....
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider - a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany - who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. Famously private, the Angela Merkel who emerges in The Chancellor is a role model for anyone interested in gaining...
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English
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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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In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
LID Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1o ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
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English
Description
La figura de quién a tenor de las encuestas se convertirá el próximo 6 de mayo en el próximo Primer Ministro del Reino Unido es prácticamente desconocida en nuestro país. ¿Quién es David Cameron? ¿Cómo ha conseguido seducir a los británicos evitando que su pasado elitista pesase negativamente en su imagen pública? Juan Milián nos acerca a un político carismático que domina la escena y traza un retrato fiel analizando sus...
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"Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to "find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa, recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times...
13) Churchill & son
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph"--
14) 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
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"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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