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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Great Britain Great Britain Foreign relations 1936-1945 Great Britain Politics and government 1936-1945 Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 Politics and government Prime ministers Prime ministers Great Britain Biography V, King of Great Britain George 1865-1936 World War, 1939-1945 Great BritainStewart, Rory.
Summary: Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland, known as the Marches, and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.37 STEAllport, Alan
Summary: "Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALLHastings, Max.
Summary: Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5341 HASPhillips, Adrian
Summary: A radically new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s, identifying the individuals responsible for a variety of miscalculations and moral surrender that made World War II inevitable. Appeasement failed in all its goals. The kindest thing that can be said of it is that postponed World War II by one year. Its real effect was to convince Hitler and Mussolini that Britain was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 PHIRicks, Thomas E.
Summary: A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 RICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RICMorton, Andrew
Summary: Examines the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's relationship with Germany and possible Nazi sympathies, a German plot to make him puppet king of a defeated England, and efforts by the British and American governments to conceal the evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MORYoung, Lauren
Summary: "Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism almost took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details how sympathy for the Nazi cause pervaded the British aristocracy, with significant factions of the upper class actively and methodically pursuing a pro-German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.083 YOULukacs, John
Summary: "The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with or to continue the war against Hitler. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's new book." "Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.532 LUKSchneer, Jonathan.
Summary: In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SCHBouverie, Tim
Summary: "A new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.41 BOUGilbert, Martin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stoddart 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.08 GILJames, Lawrence
Summary: A biography of the prime minister of Great Britain that highlights his relationship with the British Empire and his time serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan and discusses his prejudiced view that some nationalities were superior to others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON JAMLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHUOlson, Lynne
Summary: "When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSBucholz, R. O.
Summary: During the 229-year period 1485-1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into "the first modern society," emerging as the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. The English people survived epidemics, famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 HISManchester, 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 MANSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYGregory, Philippa
Summary: "Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024