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Churchill : a biography
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- ISBN: 9780452283527
- ISBN: 0452283523
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Physical Description:
xxi, 1001 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Plume, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 953-957) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. A brash young man 1874-1908 -- pt. 2. The glow-worm glows : the morning was golden 1908-1914 -- pt. 3. The noontide was bronze 1914-1918 -- pt. 4. Hesitant afternoon sunshine 1919-1939 -- pt. 5. The saviour of his country and the light of the world? 1939-1945 -- pt. 6. Was the evening leaden? 1945-1965. |
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| Subject: | Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Prime ministers Great Britain Biography Great Britain Politics and government 20th century |
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Table of Contents
Churchill
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| List of Illustrations | p. ix | |
| Preface | p. xiii | |
| Glossary of Parliamentary Terms | p. xvii | |
| Part 1 | A Brash Young Man 1874-1908 | |
| 1. | A Doubtful Provenance | p. 3 |
| 2. | Subaltern of Empire and Journalist of Opportunity | p. 22 |
| 3. | Oldham and South Africa | p. 47 |
| 4. | Tory into Liberal | p. 65 |
| 5. | Convert into Minister | p. 89 |
| 6. | An Upwardly Mobile Under-Secretary | p. 111 |
| Part 2 | The Glow-worm Glows: The Morning was Golden 1908-1914 | |
| 7. | Two Hustings and an Altar | p. 129 |
| 8. | The Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Board of Trade | p. 142 |
| 9. | A Young Home Secretary | p. 167 |
| 10. | From Prisons to Warships | p. 192 |
| 11. | 'The Ruler of the King's Navee' | p. 207 |
| 12. | Churchill in Asquithland | p. 222 |
| Part 3 | The Noontide was Bronze 1914-1918 | |
| 13. | A Flailing First Lord | p. 243 |
| 14. | Last Months at the Admiralty | p. 254 |
| 15. | Finished at Forty? | p. 277 |
| 16. | An Improbable Colonel and a Misjudged Re-entry | p. 289 |
| 17. | Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon Arrives a Little Late | p. 310 |
| 18. | Making the Most of Munitions | p. 325 |
| Part 4 | Hesitant Afternoon Sunshine 1919-1939 | |
| 19. | Anti-Bolshevik Crusader and Irish Peacemaker | p. 345 |
| 20. | A Politician without a Party or a Seat | p. 370 |
| 21. | Gold and Strikes | p. 393 |
| 22. | A Relentless Writer | p. 418 |
| 23. | Cuckoo out of the Nest | p. 433 |
| 24. | Unwisdom in the Wilderness | p. 447 |
| 25. | An Early Alarm Clock | p. 464 |
| 26. | Arms and the Covenant | p. 481 |
| 27. | From the Abdication to Munich | p. 505 |
| 28. | The Last Year of the Peace | p. 530 |
| Part 5 | The Saviour of his Country and the Light of the World? 1939-1945 | |
| 29. | Quiet War with Germany and Uneasy Peace with Chamberlain | p. 551 |
| 30. | Through Disaster in the Fjords to Triumph in Downing Street | p. 570 |
| 31. | Twenty-One Days in May | p. 589 |
| 32. | The Terrible Beauty of the Summer of 1940 | p. 611 |
| 33. | The Battle of Britain and the Beginning of the Blitz | p. 630 |
| 34. | No Longer Alone | p. 647 |
| 35. | The Anglo-American Marriage Ceremony | p. 669 |
| 36. | The Hinge Year | p. 680 |
| 37. | 1943: From Casablanca to Teheran | p. 705 |
| 38. | The Return to France | p. 729 |
| 39. | The Beginning of the End | p. 746 |
| 40. | Victory in Europe and Defeat in Britain | p. 773 |
| Part 6 | Was the Evening Leaden? 1945-1965 | |
| 41. | 'The English Patient' | p. 803 |
| 42. | Two Elections and a Resurrection | p. 827 |
| 43. | A Consensual Government | p. 843 |
| 44. | 'An Aeroplane ... with the Petrol Running Out' | p. 862 |
| 45. | A Celebration and a Last Exit | p. 885 |
| 46. | The Sun Sinks Slow, How Slowly | p. 898 |
| References | p. 913 | |
| Select Bibliography | p. 953 | |
| Index | p. 959 |
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