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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages : illustrations . ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the Prime Minister's writing career over the course of his life, culminating in his four-volume "History of the English-Speaking Peoples."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor attack and the start of America's involvement in World War II. Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock--in some cases overseas, elation--was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating...
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"He was an uninspired student who won the Nobel Prize for literature. He failed military school examinations twice--and then became Lord of the Admiralty. A disastrous decision during World War I threatened to ruin his political career, but he was named Prime Minister of Britain in 1940. The three programs in this encyclopedic collection explore Winston Churchill's extraordinary life and monumental legacy. Written and hosted by his official biographer,...
89) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
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...
Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A naval historian describes the British Navy's disastrous attempt to get to Constantinople through the Dardanelles, and analyzes Winston Churchill's response to the obstacles faced during the operation that marked a turning point in World War I.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the World War II prime minister's early career covers his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reforms, and his lesser-known romantic pursuits.
97) The Churchills
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war leaders in British history, both of whom were called Churchill. Everyone knows Winston Churchill led Britain and her Allies in their struggle against Hitler; less well known is John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, who led Britain and her Allies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. John Churchill was Winston's ancestor, but he was more than...
99) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (2 hr., 5 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
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