Churchill: 361 books

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders...

In novelist Winston Churchill’s first book, the 19th century’s literary and fashionable worlds are tartly skewered. Celebrity also features two archetypal characters—the politician and the businessman—that appear in many of Churchill’s subsequent works.

My African Journey describes Winston Churchill's journey up the Uganda Railroad. Churchill was the Under-secretary of State for the Colonies when he undertook the journey of East Africa in 1907. He gives wonderful descriptions of the countryside and meetings with local tribes, and provides an authentic look into late colonial attitudes.

A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play of 2002. A Number was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, 2002, starring Michael Gambon & Daniel Craig. 'A Number...

Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness...

Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events. War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014) draws on Tolstoy’s novel and accounts of family life in Gaza. Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) explores the relationship between sponsorship...

In The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work of history, this volume covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815...

In the fourth volume of the British prime minister’s legendary wartime speeches, the tides are turning and an Allied victory is within reach.   The brilliant politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the...

This stunning second volume of wartime speeches and broadcasts from the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister captures the troubled early days of WWII. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium....

Recognized as one of the most prominent statesmen of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill was also an important political thinker whose views helped shape the course of the Western world. In this volume of collected speeches, Churchill describes the emergence of liberalism and lays out a succinct and compellng case against it.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work...

Wielding Words Like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist and intellectual Ward Churchill's essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995-2005. It includes material illustrating the range of formats Churchill has adopted in stating his...

An examination of the many theories surrounding this enigmatic text, apparently written in code • Reveals the connections between this work and the Cathars, Roger Bacon, and John Dee • Explains the cryptanalysis methods used in attempts to break the code • Includes color...

Winston Churchill is renowned as a brilliant Conservative politician and statesman--but he wasn't always a Conservative. In 1904, he crossed over to join the Liberal party--becoming Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies when the Liberals took office, and later joining the Liberal Cabinet....