CHURCHILL: A LIFE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Martin Gilbert
Published by Folio Society
in 2004
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- BIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- MILITARY
- POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
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Front cover
Contents
- VOLUME I
- Preface
- Author's Note
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Childhood
- 2 Harrow
- 3 Towards the Army
- 4 Second Lieutenant
- 5 In Action
- 6 To Omdurman and Beyond
- 7 South Africa: Adventure, Capture, Escape
- 8 Into Parliament
- 9 Revolt and Responsibilities
- 10 The Social Field
- 11 Home Secretary
- 12 At the Admiralty
- 13 The Coming of War in 1914
- 14 War
- 15 Isolation and Escape
- 16 In the Trenches
- 17 'Deep and Ceaseless Torment'
- 18 Minister of Munitions
- 19 At the War Office
- 20 Colonial Secretary
- 21 Return to the Wilderness
- 22 At the Exchequer
- Maps
- VOLUME II
- 23 Out of office
- 24 The Moment of Truth
- 25 No Place for Churchill
- 26 From Munich to War
- 27 Return to the Admiralty
- 28 Prime Minister
- 29 Britain at Bay
- 30 The Widening War
- 31 Planning for Victory
- 32 Illness and Recovery
- 33 Normandy and Beyond
- 34 War and Diplomacy
- 35 'Advance, Britannia'
- 36 'An Iron Curtain'
- 37 Mapping the Past, Guiding the Futurre
- 38 Prime Minister at Peacetime
- 39 Recovery, Last Ambition, Resignation
- 40 Last Years
- Maps
- Index