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Winston Churchill Myth And Reality
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Author : Richard M. Langworth
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Winston Churchill Myth And Reality written by Richard M. Langworth and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with History categories.
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the author's fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.
1940
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Author : Clive Ponting
language : en
Publisher: Library of Social Science; 618
Release Date : 1991
1940 written by Clive Ponting and has been published by Library of Social Science; 618 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Examines British government policy during World War II, arguing that widely held beliefs about Britain's role in the events of 1940 are largely myth.
The Churchills
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Author : John Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-26
The Churchills written by John Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with categories.
Beautiful and powerful, the Churchills dominated world politics for generations - but like every family they have their secrets... Winston Churchill is arguably the most famous Briton, but a shroud of mystery still surrounds him and his family. Myths propagated by Winston's political enemies persist to this day, yet the truth is just as compelling. His younger brother John (Jack) has been largely forgotten but played a crucial role both in Winston's successes and in holding the family together financially. From the allegations of their father Lord Randolph's syphilis and Winston's seemingly endless struggle to succeed as a politician, to their mother Jennie's social successes and Jack's dashed ambitions, Celia and John Lee use never-before-seen archives of hundreds of family letters to cut through the rumours and lies, and get to the truth about the life of the former Prime Minister and his relationship with his family. In The Churchills: A Family Portrait, the reader is provided the first, fully inclusive study of this remarkable family. Praise for The Churchills: A Family Portrait: 'The Lees succeeded in providing a clear insight into the family life of Winston Churchill and his brother John (Jack), whilst shedding new light on the important relationship with their parents, Randolph and Jennie. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Churchills' - Randolph L.S. Churchill 'A fascinating new book by Celia and John Lee, who were granted unique access to the private papers of Winston Churchill's nephew, Peregrine S. Churchill, is set to challenge common misunderstandings about the family dynamic. The Lees have done Churchillian history a great service with their diligence, throwing light on a part of the story that has not hitherto been fully understood' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking With Destiny "By their careful re-reading of the known letters between the principal characters, and the blending in of new material from Peregrine S. Churchill's archive, Celia and John Lee add enormously to our understanding of the great Churchill family." -Allen Packwood, Director, Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge "This book brings Winston's brother John (Jack) into the picture as no previous work has done and is a valuable contribution to our knowledge." - Richard M. Langworth CBE, author of Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said "We also discover here for the first time that Winston and Jack both had happy, loving childhoods by the standards of upper-class families in Victorian England, while Winston had chosen to portray himself as a lonely, victimised child, who triumphed over adversity. - Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail Celia Lee is an historian and biographer, author of Jean, Lady Hamilton (1861-1941) Diaries of A Soldiers Wife; HRH The Duke Of Kent: A Life of Service; and co-editor of and contributor to Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line. John Lee is well known in military history circles as a writer, lecturer and battlefield tour guide. He is author of A Soldier's Life: General Sir Ian Hamilton (1853 - 1947); The Warlords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff; and The Gas Attacks: Ypres 1915.
Winston Churchill
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Winston Churchill Myth And Reality
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Author : Richard M. Langworth
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-03-29
Winston Churchill Myth And Reality written by Richard M. Langworth and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-29 with History categories.
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the author's fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.
The Churchill Myths
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Author : Steven Fielding
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020
The Churchill Myths written by Steven Fielding and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back from the dead, capturing and explaining the significance of the various Churchill myths to Britain's history and current politics. The authors look at Churchill's portrayal in social memory. They demonstrate the ways in which politicians have often used the idea of Churchill as a means of self-validation - using him to show themselves as tough and honest players. They show the man dramatized in film and television - an onscreen persona that is often the product of a gratuitous mixing of fact and fantasy, one deliberately shaped to meet the preferences of the presumed audience. They discuss his legacy in light of the Brexit debate - showing how public figures on both sides of the Leave/Remain debate were able to use elements of Churchill's words and character to argue for their own point-of-view.
The Myth And The Reality
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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Churchill And The Avoidable War
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Author : Richard M. Langworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-25
Churchill And The Avoidable War written by Richard M. Langworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-25 with categories.
World War II was the defining event of our age-the climactic clash between democracy and tyranny. It led to revolutions, the demise of empires, a protracted Cold War, and religious strife still not ended. Yet Churchill maintained that it was all avoidable: "If the Allies had resisted Hitler strongly in his early stages...he would have been forced to recoil." Here is a transformative view of Churchill's prescriptions, and the degree to which he pursued them in the decade before the war. It shows he was both right and wrong: right that Hitler could have been stopped; wrong that he did all he could to stop him. Could WW2 have been prevented? Yes-at one juncture in particular-but with great difficulty.
Myth And Reality
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
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The Battle Of Britain
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Author : Richard Overy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-05-06
The Battle Of Britain written by Richard Overy and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with History categories.
The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides answers to important questions: how close did Britain really come to invasion? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war? Told with great clarity and objectivity, this is a superb introduction to a defining moment in our history. 'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ... In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ... Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ... the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement