Churchill: 361 books

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria is a book written by Winston Churchill. It is a personal record of Churchill's impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. It includes an account of the Relief of Ladysmith, and also the story of Churchill's capture and dramatic escape from...

Praise for Bernard Lewis   "For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man." TIME Magazine   “The doyen of Middle Eastern studies." The New York Times   “No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority,...

Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little magazine that served as a laboratory for modernist poetic experimentation. In discussions of influential poets such as Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and William...

¿Fue realmente Churchill el gran valedor de la unidad europea de la posguerra? ¿Iba su idea de Europa más allá de una mera cooperación entre gobiernos? ¿Cuál era su opinión sobre la participación británica? Sería tan sencillo como inútil recurrir a una cita aislada del popular político...

Winston S. Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century's greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough's victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain's...

Neben der Zigarre, dem Whiskyglas und dem Victory-Zeichen waren Wortwitz, Schlagfertigkeit und rhetorische Wucht Churchills Markenzeichen. Und das, obwohl er lispelte, nuschelte, ja, manchmal stotterte. Seine Aperçus sind legendär und ebenso in die Geschichte eingegangen wie seine Kriegsreden, über...

IN the spring of 1893 Lord Randolph Churchill, feeling that he had slender expectations of long life, placed all his papers, private and official, under a trust-deed which consigned them at his death to the charge of two of his most intimate political friends, Viscount Curzon (now Earl Howe) and Mr....

This ebook compilation offers the reader both the first 5 chapters of The Orbury Way (so that you can try before you buy - this sample is over 10,000 words longer than the samples offered elsewhere) as well all fifteen columns of 'The Hacker'. 'The Hacker' was a regular column written by Phil Churchill...

A stunningly ambitious work from one of the UK's most influential playwrights. Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's mother. Someone hates...

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan is an 1899 book written by Winston Churchill while he was still an officer in the British army.The book provides a history of the British involvement in the Sudan and the conflict between the British forces led by Lord Kitchener and...

This fascinating book gives us an infallible insight from one shrewd politician about the times, circumstances and the most significant events which led to the outbreak of World War 1. Although the book nominally stars in 1911 when Churchill became head of the Admiralty, the narrative commences in...

Pacifism as Pathology is a dissident classic. Originally written during the '80s, the seminal essay 'Pacifism as Pathology' was prompted by Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing - and deliberately self-neutralising - 'hegemony of nonviolence' on the North American left....

The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the...

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