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  • Power and Stability

    British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965

    The pursuit of stability drove British foreign policy even before 1865. These papers assess the implications of such a policy during the following 100 years when Britain slid from being the only global power to a regional European state. ... Read more

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  • Darkest Hour

    How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

    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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winston Churchill

    A Life

    by John Keegan ...
    Series series Penguin Lives
    One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston ChurchillIn his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance. From Churchill's youth as a poor student to his leadership during World War II, Keegan reveals a man whose ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Churchill: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime ... Read more

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  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    **From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I“A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking.” — Atlantic**The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • His Finest Hour

    A Biography of Winston Churchill

    Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man.Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone ... Read more

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  • Britain and Victory in the Great War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking ... Read more

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  • Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King

    So Similar, So Different

    by Terry Reardon ...
    Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King took different paths to achieve their objective of a parliamentary career, Churchill through military exploits and King via academic excellence. When he became prime minister, King realized that Canada had to progress from a subservient position to an independent one. Thus, when the Second World War broke out, ... Read more

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  • Hidden History

    a compelling and captivating study of the causes of WW1 that turns everything you think you know on its head

    Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...'Thought-provoking ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Churchill, 1940–1945

    Under Friendly Fire

    by Walter Reid ...
    This "magnificent" account of Churchill's battles with allies "is a meticulously researched history, but it is also a very moving human story" ( The Herald).In April 1945, Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, "There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!" When he became Prime Minister on May 10, 1940, Churchill was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Shadow

    The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill

    **A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture.**Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft ... Read more

    $15.99 USD