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  • Churchill: The End of Glory

    A Political Biography

    by John Charmley ...
    Of the three revisionist works John Charmley has written about British foreign policy in the mid-twentieth century this is the centrepiece.The author argues that Churchill deserves more credit for 'their finest hour' than has been granted, but just as his virtues were built on the heroic scale, so too were his faults and failures. The statesman who had struggled to destroy Nazism and restore ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Chamberlain and the Lost Peace

    by John Charmley ...
    An important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of World War II. Entertaining and absorbing....Chamberlain hardly emerges a hero from these pages, but at least there is no excuse left for regarding him as no more than a wimp in a wing-collar. -The Guardian ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Splendid Isolation?

    Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War

    by John Charmley ...
    Splendid Isolation? is at once a portrait of British politics and diplomacy at the height of British power and a revisionist account of the First World War. John Charmley argues a powerful and challenging case, forcing a fresh look at a period long held to be part of the glorious British past. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830

    by John Charmley ...
    Series series British Studies Series
    The second edition of this successful text has been thoroughly updated to take into account recent research, and now begins at 1830. Charmley examines the history of the party and takes the story through the recent 'wilderness years' following the 1997 election fiasco, right up to David Cameron's leadership. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Darkest Hour

    How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

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    A biographical portrait of Great Britain's renowned Prime Minister during World War II—the basis for the film starring Oscar-winner Gary Oldman."McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable." —Michael ... Read more

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  • Winston Churchill: Essential Biographies

    by Robert Blake ...
    Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and became Chancellor of the Exechequer under Baldwin, A period in the political wilderness was ended by the ... Read more

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  • Churchill

    Soldier and Statesman from the Boer War to the Cold War

    by Brenda Ralph Lewis ...
    Series series WWII Leaders
    Few statesmen have received so many honours as he did over the course of his career. Although several have received the Nobel Peace Prize, none save Churchill have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His was a career that had few parallels in British history for richness, range, length and achievement. The biography provides an interesting and informative account of Churchill's life - from ... Read more

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  • Unreliable Sources

    How the Twentieth Century Was Reported

    by John Simpson ...
    **'Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' – Giles Foden, The GuardianA critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson.**Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable Sources, he draws upon this extensive ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Churchill

    A Life

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    "A richly textured and deeply moving portrait of greatness" ( Los Angeles Times).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 ... Read more

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  • Finest Years

    Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

    by Max Hastings ...
    'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result' James Holland, Literary ReviewA moving, dramatic narrative of crisis and fortitude, Hastings offers one of the finest biographies of one of Britain’s ... Read more

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  • Churchill

    by Paul Johnson ...
    From the “most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America” (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston ChurchillIn Churchill, eminent historian Paul Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill's hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and Johnson’s ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

    Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

    by Miranda Carter ...
    In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent ... Read more

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