[PDF] In The Footsteps Of Churchill eBook

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 078673499X

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As one of the most admired political leaders of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill holds iconic status in popular memory. But in this incisive new biography, acclaimed military historian Richard Holmes offers a remarkable reappraisal of Churchill by examining the influences that shaped his character. Drawing upon never-before-seen materials such as letters between the young Churchill and his parents, Holmes paints the most complete portrait to date of the man who stood up to Hitler and led his people to victory against all odds. Detailing the decisive events of Churchill's life -- from his childhood to his experiences in the Boer War through his rapid rise in politics -- Holmes demonstrates the central role Churchill's character played in the key decisions of his public life. With an already inflated sense of self, Churchill had several lucky escapes in combat -- in the Boer War and in the trenches of WWI -- convincing him that he was saved for a reason and was destined for greatness. In the Footsteps of Churchill uncovers a surprisingly different Churchill -- both admirable and difficult -- through the lens of his character.

Author : Celia Sandys
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1910065285

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Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA - amongst others - and recounts how Sir Winston's trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as 'our Greatest Briton'.

Author : Caroline Nichols Churchill
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1909-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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A woman way ahead of her time, she was an outspoken feminist, suffragist, and advocate for the rights of minorities. Writer and newspaper publisher, Caroline Nichols Churchill, never hesitated to say what she felt about an issue, no matter whose feathers it might ruffle. Today, Churchill is celebrated by western historians as a key figure in the western suffrage movement and a pioneer as a female journalist. This is the wide-ranging autobiography that she published in the early twentieth century. Wry, satirical, entertaining, and always opinionated, Caroline Churchill keeps you flipping pages from beginning to end. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Sir Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399408186

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Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of his extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera and Charles De Gaulle. The letters are enhanced by facsimiles and images which appear throughout the book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Haus Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2023-05
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ISBN : 9781914982057

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Clark takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill's life, following his footsteps through Britain and Ireland. More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely another Churchill biography. Churchill's Britain takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill's life, leading us in Churchill's footsteps through locations in Britain and Ireland that are tied to key aspects of his biography. Some are familiar-Blenheim Palace, where he was born; Chartwell, his beloved house in the country; and the Cabinet War Rooms, where he planned the campaigns of World War II. But we also are taken to his schools, his parliamentary constituencies, locations of famous speeches, the place where he started to paint, the tobacco shop where he bought his cigars, and the graves of his family and close friends. Clark brings us close to the statesman Churchill by visiting sites that were important to the story of his long life, from the site where his father proposed to his American mother on the Isle of Wight to his grave in a country churchyard in Oxfordshire. Designed as a gazetteer with helpful regional maps, Churchill's Britain can be dipped into, consulted by the traveler on a Churchill tour of Britain, or read straight through--and no matter how it's read, it will deliver fresh insights into this extraordinary man.

Author : Christopher Catherwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1510720316

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Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man. Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone who understood the dangers of Nazi Germany before 1939 and someone uniquely capable to lead the empire through the turmoil of the Second World War. Christopher Catherwood argues that it was Churchill’s stand in 1940-41 that saved Britain and that only he was able to bring together the allies that eventually defeated Hitler in 1945. Catherwood has produced a challenging yet lively reassessment of the life and career of Winston Churchill, lion of British history and flawed hero.