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Churchill : a biography / Roy Jenkins.

Jenkins, Roy. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0374123543
  • ISBN: 9780452283527
  • Physical Description: xxi, 1002 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2001.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 913-957) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 A Brash Young Man 1874-1908 -- 1. A Doubtful Provenance 3 -- 2. Subaltern of Empire and Journalist of Opportunity 22 -- 3. Oldham and South Africa 47 -- 4. Tory into Liberal 65 -- 5. Convert into Minister 89 -- 6. An Upwardly Mobile Under-Secretary 111 -- Part 2 Glow-worm Glows: The Morning was Golden 1908-1914 -- 7. Two Hustings and an Altar 129 -- 8. Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Board of Trade 142 -- 9. A Young Home Secretary 167 -- 10. From Prisons to Warships 192 -- 11. 'The Ruler of the King's Navee' 207 -- 12. Churchill in Asquithland 222 -- Part 3 Noontide was Bronze 1914-1918 -- 13. A Flailing First Lord 243 -- 14. Last Months at the Admiralty 254 -- 15. Finished at Forty? 277 -- 16. An Improbable Colonel and a Misjudged Re-entry 289 -- 17. Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon Arrives a Little Late 310 -- 18. Making the Most of Munitions 325 -- Part 4 Hesitant Afternoon Sunshine 1919-1939 -- 19. Anti-Bolshevik Crusader and Irish Peacemaker 345 -- 20. A Politician without a Party or a Seat 370 -- 21. Gold and Strikes 393 -- 22. A Relentless Writer 418 -- 23. Cuckoo out of the Nest 433 -- 24. Unwisdom in the Wilderness 447 -- 25. An Early Alarm Clock 464 -- 26. Arms and the Covenant 481 -- 27. From the Abdication to Munich 505 -- 28. Last Year of the Peace 530 -- Part 5 Saviour of his Country and the Light of the World? 1939-1945 -- 29. Quiet War with Germany and Uneasy Peace with Chamberlain 551 -- 30. Through Disaster in the Fjords to Triumph in Downing Street 570 -- 31. Twenty-One Days in May 589 -- 32. Terrible Beauty of the Summer of 1940 611 -- 33. Battle of Britain and the Beginning of the Blitz 630 -- 34. No Longer Alone 647 -- 35. Anglo-American Marriage Ceremony 669 -- 36. Hinge Year 680 -- 37. 1943: From Casablanca to Teheran 705 -- 38. Return to France 729 -- 39. Beginning of the End 746 -- 40. Victory in Europe and Defeat in Britain 773 -- Part 6 Was the Evening Leaden? 1945-1965 -- 41. 'The English Patient' 803 -- 42. Two Elections and a Resurrection 827 -- 43. A Consensual Government 843 -- 44. 'An Aeroplane ... with the Petrol Running Out' 862 -- 45. A Celebration and a Last Exit 885 -- 46. Sun Sinks Slow, How Slowly 898.
Subject:
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
Prime ministers > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century.
Genre:
Biographies.

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