Churchill

"Ashley Jackson describes the contours and contradictions of Churchill's remarkable life and career as a solider, politician, historian, journalist, painter, amateur farmer and homemaker. From thrusting subaltern to high-flying politician, Cabinet outcast to elder statesman, this is the et...

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Main Author: Jackson, Ashley (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York ; London : Quercus, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscape for a lifetime: Winston, Woodstock and Oxfordshire
  • Cadet to frontier soldier: warrior and writer
  • Pundit and politician: a rising star
  • High office: war on land and sea
  • Home and colonial: new nations, strikes, and gold
  • Man of Kent: a frenzied unemployment
  • War machine: the management of global conflict
  • A higher vision: post-war government and a changing world
  • Symbol of the nation.