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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Authors, American 20th century Biography Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Great Britain Foreign relations 1901-1936 Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century Great Britain Politics and government 20th century Manchester, William 1922-2004 Prime ministers Great Britain Biography United States. Marine Corps Biography World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanManchester, William
Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MANManchester, William
Summary: Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors-at one point he had to put up his home for sale-he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was disowned by his own party, dismissed by the BBC, Fleet Street, and the social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B CHURCHILLManchester, William
Summary: Spanning the years of 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester's monumental biography the Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany and continues through Churchill's fight against the rising tide of communism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON MANManchester, William
Summary: Biography of one of the most controversial American generals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS MANManchester, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 MANManchester, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5483 MANManchester, William
Summary: "This second volume in William Manchester's three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON MANManchester, William
Summary: "From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth--the dense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.21 MANManchester, William.
Summary: Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, Defender of the Realm, the third volume of William Manchester's The Last Lion, picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill portrayed by Manchester and Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning-fast intellect, and an irresistible will to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Manchester, William Raymond
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 MANManchester, William Raymond
Summary: Describes the early life and political career of the British prime minister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 1989