epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...

epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Gillian Shephard

From the very start, she had steadily built up an enviable reputation among colleagues from all parties. Her maiden speech was unique, for she used it to introduce her own ...

mobi | | | Author:Tony Blair

mobi |eng | 2010-09-03 | Author:Tony Blair

THIRTEEN. IRAQ: COUNTDOWN TO WAR As I thought on how to answer the question put to me at the end of my evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shelden

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Blair, Tony [Blair, Tony]

Round the world, September 11 is bringing governments and people to reflect, consider and change. And in this process, amidst all the talk of war and action, there is another ...

epub |eng | 1983-05-30 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

Thus the rush of cataclysmic events came down to Tuesday, August 4, 1914, when at midnight Berlin time—11:00 P.M. in London—Grey’s ultimatum to Germany would expire. In Pear Tree Cottage, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-12 | Author:Claire Tomalin

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Martin Gilbert

Note on Sources The material in this lecture is taken from my book Churchill: A Life, as well as from the six volumes of the Churchill biography, Winston S. Churchill, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT HEN Martin Luther proclaimed his theses at Wittenberg he was announcing, too, the triumph of his own self-awareness. The era of Protestantism, as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Paul Johnson

Chapter Five The Unregarded Prophet Now began the hardest, harshest period of Churchill’s life. He was lucky to have a safe seat where he was active, was much loved, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Charles Moore [Moore, Charles]

Hunt recommended asking the Chancellor to say what the consequences of higher public spending would be for GDP and for interest rates. His proposed way of ‘steering’ the discussion was ...