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  • Winston Churchill at the Telegraph

    Edited by Warren Dockter ...
    This fascinating collection of reportage chronicles the Prime Minister's life through the newspaper where he began his career.The Telegraph had a uniquely close connection with Winston Churchill at every stage of his life. Beginning with his early days as a war correspondent for the paper, the association continued as he himself became the news—reported on in its pages at every stage of his ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Türkiye-Britain Relations

    Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation

    by Oguzhan Göksel, Ozan Örmeci, Gürol Baba, Gökhan Ak, Huseyin Bagci, Ahmet Ceylan, Warren Dockter, William Hale0, Elnur Ismayil1, Sina Kisacik2, Özker Kocadal3, Mehmet Cem Ogultürk4, Cenk Özgen5, Polat Üründül6, Matthew Weiss7, F. Begüm Yildizeli8, Eren Alper Yilmaz9, Nurcan Özkaplan Yurdakul0 ...
    Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation studies all aspects of Turkish-British relations. Türkiye’s relations with Britain, including those in the Ottoman era, followed a peculiar pattern of cordial bilateralism. There was continuous correspondence and a certain level of understanding even during the very times of hostility, i.e., the Anglo-Turkish ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Churchill and the Islamic World

    Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East

    by Warren Dockter ...
    Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister

    Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher

    Edited by Andrew Holt, Warren Dockter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has been given to high-level contacts between leaders and to the roles played by the premiers themselves, much less is known about the people advising and influencing them. In providing day-to-day assistance to the Prime Minister, a Private Secretary could ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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    The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

    by David Fromkin ...
    Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

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  • On Secret Service East of Constantinople

    The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim.Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the ... Read more

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  • David Lloyd George

    The Great Outsider

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.In this fascinating biography of an authentic radical, Roy Hattersley charts the great reforms - the first ... Read more

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  • The Balfour Declaration

    The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    A revelatory history of a document that laid the foundation stone of the state of Israel, the reverberations of which continue to be felt to this day.Born in the furnace of shifting great-power alliances, the Balfour Declaration, issued in 1917, was a defining moment in world history. In paving the way for the establishment of the State of Israel, it fundamentally reshaped the Middle East and ... Read more

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  • Harold Wilson

    by Ben Pimlott, Peter Hennessy ...
    Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen.Harold Wilson is one of the most enigmatic personalities of recent British history. He held office as Prime Minister for longer than any other Labour leader, and ... Read more

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  • The Berlin-Baghdad Express

    The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire.McMeekin's book shows ... Read more

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  • Closet Queens

    Some 20th Century British Politicians

    by Michael Bloch ...
    Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes ... Read more

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