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Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Roosevelt and Churchill: Theirs was a partnership that shaped the American Century. Their combined leadership during the crucial years of World War II seized victory for the Allied forces and laid the groundwork for the peace that followed. The story of their relationship is also, inevitably, the story of their nations and the "good war." Now, noted historian Warren Kimball brings to life the political and personal affiance of these two great leaders,...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A cultural and musical history of the 1960s in Britain and America captures the pulse of the era through the music of the Beatles, critically analyzing why the group became a trans-Atlantic phenomenon while discussing the evolution of the group's music.
47) The judge hunter
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to...
48) The Crucible of war: the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1989, c1986-c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
They had a faith, a vision, a dream of freedom that both enthralled and frightened him--could he trust them with his entire future?
They Had a Faith, a Vision, a Dream of Freedom That Both Enthralled and Frightened Him Could He Trust Them With His Entire Future?Forced by his family to become a minister in the Church of England, Gilbert Winslow is offered a dangerous and challenging task by one of the most powerful nobles in Britain. Taking the post...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoriative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war of survival." From the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In [this volume, the author] explores the ... relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one--a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts...
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