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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New from Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. In 1909, Clementine Churchill steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs...
4) The ghost
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest-serving--and most controversial--prime minister of the last half-century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in Martha's Vineyard to finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive memoir, for which he accepted one of history's largest cash advances. But the project runs aground when...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Author
Series
Liam Devlin volume 2
Publisher
Stein and Day
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
British intelligence needs to get Brosnan, an expert killer out of prison to assassinate a man, but Brosnan has a plan of his own--to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do--and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve. Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable...
9) Tony Blair
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This book profiles British Prime Minister Tony Blair, including his years as a rebellious teen, a rock promoter, and a politician who has faced major challenges at home and abroad.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with the brutal murder of her husband before her eyes, Leah Rabin recounts in clear-sighted detail the events of her forty-eight years with Rabin, from their dramatic courtship during service in the Palmach, the elite strike force of the underground Jewish army, to their marriage during the 1948 War of Independence; from his ascent as a brilliant military tactician and his role as chief of staff of Israel's armed forces during the breathtaking...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Description
An epic standard in biography, the first volume in the complete and comprehensive life story of one of modern history's greatest figures. The first chapter of Sir Winston Churchill's eight-volume official biography as told through a rich treasure trove of personal letters. This volume covers the years from Churchill's birth in 1874 to his return to England from an American lecture tour, on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral in 1900, in order to...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A biography of Golda Meir, the Ukrainian-born fourth and only female prime minister of Israel, with profiles of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, and Yitzhak Rabin, the first prime minister born in what is now Israel. As well as feeling pride as leaders of the people of Israel, all three experienced a special connection to the land itself, having spent time early in their careers in communal farm settlements known as kibbutzim.
19) Benazir Bhutto
Author
Publisher
A Blackbirch Press Book
Pub. Date
1992
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Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This third and climactic volume (1987-2013) of Charles Moore's authorized biography gives the definitive account of Margaret Thatcher's third term in office and her life after it. Three stories run through the whole book. The first is Mrs. Thatcher's dominance of her government in almost every domestic field, but also her growing intolerance of dissent, the increasing alienation of her most senior ministers over Europe and the fatal corrosion that...