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...
Main Author: | Jackson, Ashley (Author) |
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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.