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The Second World War volume 1
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Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1948
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English
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Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
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English
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This documentary films examines the theory that Germany essentially won and then lost World War II before 1942, due to Hitler's political and military mistakes. Highlights include historical footage of such figures as Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and others, as well as personal interviews of veterans from both sides of the war.
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English
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In this masterful book, prize-winning historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert weaves together the research from his eight-volume biography of the elder statesman into one single volume, and includes new information unavailable at the time of the original work's publication.
Spanning Churchill's youth, education, and early military career, his journalistic work, and the arc of his political leadership, Churchill: A Life details...
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English
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The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His Granddaughter
In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather's adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War-events that took him from the bivouacs and battle sites of Transvaal to his incarceration as a prisoner of war in Pretoria and ultimately...
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An epic standard in biography, the first volume in the complete and comprehensive life story of one of modern history's greatest figures. The first chapter of Sir Winston Churchill's eight-volume official biography as told through a rich treasure trove of personal letters. This volume covers the years from Churchill's birth in 1874 to his return to England from an American lecture tour, on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral in 1900, in order to...
12) Nick of time
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English
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Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.
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English
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Presents an account of the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister and how he met the challenges of the Blitzkrieg.
"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...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz 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...
