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61) Into the storm
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 532 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position. Lough uses Churchill's own most private records, many never researched before, to chronicle his family's chronic shortage of money, his own extravagance and his recurring losses...
Author
Language
English
Description
A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
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.
68) Churchill
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
71) Secret war
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 656 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Less than a year after WWII began, Churchill formed a secret organization called the SOE, Special Operations Executive, and ordered it to 'set Europe ablaze'. Secret War is a thrilling series that goes inside Churchill's secret army to a dangerous world of agents, double agents, and triple agents who helped liberate Europe and change the course of the war. 13 episodes, 11 hrs, 4 DVDs.
72) Churchill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen--Winston Churchill first among them--the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe's central role in world affairs might have been sustained...
Author
Series
Pimlico volume 99
Publisher
Pimlico
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
Pimlico edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 493 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
78) Churchill
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 581 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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