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The Second World War

By: Winston Churchill

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I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the twosupreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in thissecond struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty'sGovernment. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with moreauthority than was possible in my earlier books. I do not describe it as ahistory, for that belongs to another generation. But I claim with confidencethat it is a contribution to history which will be of service to the future." Sir Winston Churchill From the origins of the conflict, the rise of Hitler and thefutile attempts at appeasement, through the darkest days of Britain's lonestand against the Axis powers, the great alliances with the USA and SovietRussia and the triumphs of D Day and the eventual liberation of Europe to theterrible birth of the Cold War under the shadow of nuclear weaponry, this isWinston Churchill's landmark history of World War II. At once a personalaccount and a majesterial history, TheSecond World War remains Churchill's literary masterpiece.

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The Malakand Field Force

By: Winston S. Churchill

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The Malakand Field Force

By: Winston S. Churchill

While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force I wrote a series of letters for the London Daily Telegraph. The favourable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work. This volume is the result." -Sir Winston S. Churchill

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1557426678

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

By: Winston L. S. Churchill,Winston Churchill, Sir

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

By: Winston L. S. Churchill,Winston Churchill, Sir

Text extracted from opening pages of book: BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS THE RT. HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL C. H., M. P. With a Preface and Notes by RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL, MLP. NEW YORX G. P. PUTNAM S SONS BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS y CONTENTS EIRE BILL 5 THE CHOICE FOR EUROPE 17 THE AIR DEFENSES OF BRITAIN - 31 CIVILIZATION 45 MANEUVERS IN GERMANY 49 THE MUNICH AGREEMENT . . 55 THE DEFENSE OF FREEDOM AND PEACE 69 THE CASE FOR A MINISTRY OF SUPPLY 77 THE FRUITS OF MUNICH 95 THE STRENGTH OF THE NAVY 101 THE INVASION OF ALBANIA,113 THE KING S DOMINIONS 123 HITLER SPEAKS 129 THE NEW ARMY 135 THREE MONTHS OF TENSION 145 THE SUMN1ER ADJOURNMENT 155 EUROPE IN SUSPENSE 163 WAR . r ., ., ., - /& & < (; UDRARY * fy THE FIRST MONTH OF WAR - 73 THE LOSS OF jJiffnTlT n AV AND THE WAR AT SEA, -; 3 2.2S v MAR 16M966 vi CONTENTS TEN WEEKS OF WAR 189 TRAFFIC AT SEA 197 THE BATTLE OF THE PLATE 207 A HOUSE OF MANY MANSIONS 213 A TIME TO DARE AND ENDURE 219 THE NAVY IS HERE 229 THE NAVY ESTIMATES 233 A STERNER WAR 243 NORWAY 249 THE WITHDRAWAL FROM NORWAY 265 PRIME MINISTER 275 & quot; BE YE MEN OF VALOR& quot; 279 THE CAPITULATION OF KING LEOPOLD 285 DUNKIRK 289 A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE 301 THEIR FINEST HOUR 305 THE FALL OF FRANCE 317 THE TRAGEDY OF THE FRENCH FLEET 323 THE WAR OF THE UNKNOWN WARRIORS 333 THE WAR SITUATION I 341 THE WAR SITUATION II 355 EVERY MAN TO HIS POST 367 THE WAR SITUATION III 373 THE WAR SITUATION IV 379 LEADERSHIP OF THE PARTY 395 E THE WAR SITUATION V TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE 40I CONTENTS vE & quot; WE WILL NEVER CEASE TO STRIKE& quot; 421 THE WAR SITUATION VI 427 TO THE PEOPLE OF ITALY 439 UNITED STATES CO-OPERATION 447 TUT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN US& quot; & & > 453 INTRODUCTION TwoAND A HALF years have passed since the publication of While Eng land Slept, a collection of speeches by Mr. Winston Churchill on National Defense and Foreign Policy from 1932 to 1938. A number of people, both in this country and in the United States, have recently urged me to bring the story up to date. With the Prime Minister s permission, I have therefore collected all his speeches from May, 1938, down to the present day. This volume sees the fulfillment of all the darkest fears to which Mr. Churchill gave utterance in the earlier volume. By the time this set of speeches begins the situation had already become so desperate that less emphasis is placed upon our laggardly rearmament than in the earlier speeches. With the danger so close upon us, and with so little time to expand our defenses, Mr. Churchill clearly thought it more useful, in the hopes of deterring the aggressor, to dwell upon such elements of strength as we possessed rather than to exhibit our weakness nakedly to the world. Reading between the lines, however, the warnings persist with even more urgency than before. As in the previous volume, these speeches will be found not only to revive many warnings, whose timeli ness all can judge today, but to provide a running commentary upon the remorseless deterioration of the foreign situation. The book begins with Mr. Churchill s warning on the folly of handing over the Treaty ports to the Irish Free State a warning which, it is interesting to recall, was supported by only a handful of Members of Parliament. It carries us past the tremendous and mournful events at Munich to the inevitable and plainly pointed sequel in Prague. And so we are brought relentlessly stage by stage tothe challenge of war which Mr. Churchill had so often urged could, by timely arrangements and adequate preparations, have been warded off. Thereafter, as First Lord of the Admiralty and, later, as ix x INTRODUCTION his speeches naturally become more official. Despite this, and the in evitable pressure of business, I do not think that they will be found to lack the literary and dramatic quality of those which he made as a private Member. Indeed, they constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contempora

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1406755346

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Never Give In!

Winston Churchill's Speeches

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

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Never Give In!

Winston Churchill's Speeches

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that nation for victory against the might of the Fascist powers. Never Give In! celebrates this oratory by gathering together Churchill's most powerful speeches from throughout his public career. Carefully selected by his grandson, this collection includes all his best known speeches - from his great war-time broadcasts to the "Iron Curtain" speech that heralded the start of the Cold War - and many lesser known but inspirational pieces. In a single volume Never Give In! provides a powerful testimony to one of the great public figures of the 20th century.

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1472527518

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The Story of the Malakand Field Force

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

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The Story of the Malakand Field Force

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

In 1897, a young and untested cavalry lieutenant named Winston Churchill, more than a little keen to see action, got himself attached as a press correspondent to an expeditionary force newly formed to restore order on the North-West Frontier of India. His dispatches to the London Daily Telegraph were later expanded into this book.

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1434454029

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Great Contemporaries [Revised Edition]

By: Sir Winston Churchill

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Great Contemporaries [Revised Edition]

By: Sir Winston Churchill

This is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940-1945. The original collection of 21 essays was published in 1937, mainly written between 1928 and 1931. This 1939 edition contains four additional essays on Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt. “THESE essays on Great Men of our age have been written by me at intervals during the last eight years. Although each is self-contained, they throw from various angles, a light upon the main course of the events through which we have lived. I hope they will be found to illustrate some of its less well-known aspects. Taken together they should present not only the actors but the scene. In their sequence they may perhaps be the stepping-stones of historical narrative. The central theme is of course the group of British statesmen who shone at the end of the last century and the beginning of this—Balfour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith and Curzon. All lived, worked and disputed for so many years together, knew each other well, and esteemed each other highly. It was my privilege as a far younger man to be admitted to their society and their kindness. Reading again these chapters has brought them back to me, and made me feel how much has changed in our political life. Perhaps this is but the illusion which comes upon us all as we grow older. Certainly we must all hope this may prove to be so. In the meantime those to whom these great men are but names—that is to say the vast majority of my readers—may perhaps be glad to gain from these notes some acquaintance with them.” “By far the most important, thoughtful edition of Churchill’s famous personality sketches ever published...The indispensable ‘desert island’ text for any marooned Churchillian.”—Finest Hour “Interesting, well written and worth reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

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1787204448

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Liberalism and the Social Problem

By: Winston Spencer Churchill

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Liberalism and the Social Problem

By: Winston Spencer Churchill

Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of England during some of the most important moments in history. In 1953 Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature. This collection of early speeches by Churchill cover such topics as the adoption of constitutions for the defeated Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange River Colony and the 'People's Budget, ' a new wealth redistribution scheme of the Liberal Government, and the House of Lords and the battle with the government challenging the power of the Commons. This historically significant collection of speeches gives the reader an insight into the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest statesmen.

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8184569149

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. A noted statesman and orator, he was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and an artist. During his army career, Churchill saw combat in India, in the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. In 1940, he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain to victory against the Axis powers. Churchill was always noted for his speeches, which became a great inspiration to the British people and embattled Allied forces. After losing the 1945 election, he became leader of the opposition. In 1951, he again became Prime Minister before finally retiring in 1955. His works include: Savrola (1899), The River War (1902), Lord Randolph Churchill (1906), My African Journey (1908), Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), The People's Rights (1910), The Fighting Line (1916) and My Early Life (1930).

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1409956679

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The Speeches of Winston Churchill

By: Winston Churchill,David Cannadine

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The Speeches of Winston Churchill

By: Winston Churchill,David Cannadine

From the time of his election to the House of Parliament until his last weeks as Prime Minster in 1955, Winston Churchill was never at a loss for words. In this volume are all the well-known phrases - blood, toil, tears and sweat - their finest hour and the iron curtain.

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0140128131

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An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea (Dodo Press)

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

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An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea (Dodo Press)

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American novelist. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While it is claimed that his first novel was The Celebrity, published in 1898, a question arises where his novel called Mr. Keegan's Elopement should be placed, because it was published two years earlier in (1896) within a magazine. Later in 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book. His next novel called Richard Carvel, was published the next year. It was a phenomenon, literally selling by the box-car as many as two million copies in a nation of only seventy- six million, and that book made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work. Sometime after this move, he took up watercolours, and also became known for his landscapes.

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Winston S. Churchill, Sir

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Winston S. Churchill, Sir

In 1899 Winston Churchill, traveling as a correspondent for the MORNING POST, was captured as a prisoner of war in Pretoria. The true-life story of the first five months of the Boer war and of his daring escape and adventures are chronicled here in correspondence and dispatches written during those times. From the author's introduction: The stir and tumult of a camp do not favour calm or sustained thought, and whatever is written herein must be regarded simply as the immediate effect produced by men powerfully moved, and scenes swiftly changing upon what I hope is a truth-seeking mind.

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1598185861

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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill

The Private and Personal Letters

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill

The Private and Personal Letters

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and shine fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of his extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera and Charles De Gaulle. The letters are presented in chronological order, with a preface to each explaining the context, and they are accompanied throughout by facsimiles of said letters and photographs, offering the reader a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.

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1399408135

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.' The Daily Telegraph Spanning Caesar's invasion of Britain to the birth of the twentieth century, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston S. Churchill's most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history, and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history. This one-volume abridged edition of Churchill's major work makes accessible to readers the full sweep of his magisterial chronicle of the history of Britain. It combines Churchill's intriguing, closely observed biographical profiles of a succession of leaders - including Alfred the Great, Henry Plantagenet, Henry V, Richard III, Charles I, William Pitt and Queen Victoria - with the key events and developments that were to shape the course of history. Restored to this edition is the abridged version of the American history from the individual volumes, covering the War of American Independence and the American Civil War, each introduced by the editor.

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1350176303

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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill

The Private and Personal Letters

By: Sir Winston S. Churchill

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The Private and Personal Letters

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The Crisis

A Tale of the Civil War

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

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The Crisis

A Tale of the Civil War

By: Winston S. Churchill,Winston Churchill

One of the best Civil War stories ever written, and one of the finest love stories in the English language. [Facsimile reprint.]

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143446315X

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Sir Winston S Churchill, K.G.,Winston Churchill

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London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

By: Sir Winston S Churchill, K.G.,Winston Churchill

[...]realise how strategically powerful the Boer position was and is. The long tongue of plain running up into the mountains could be entered from both sides. The communications of the advanced garrisons would be assailed: their retreat imperilled. The Boers seemed bound to clear northern Natal of the troops. If, on the other hand, they were, or should now be, suddenly driven back on their own country, they have only to retire up the tongue of plain, with their exposed front narrowing every mile between the mountains, and await their pursuers on the almost inexpugnable position of Laing's Nek. Appreciating all this, their leaders have wisely resolved to put forth their main strength against the force in Natal, and by crushing it to rouse their sympathisers within the Cape Colony. Should they succeed either on this front or on any other to a serious extent, though the disaffection would[...]".

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