Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 949.7023092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.87
Review Tito (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-02-02
Dewey code: 973.9220922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.08
Review Kennedy and Nixon : The Rivalary That Shaped Postwar America / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.25
Review The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister / Pimlico:
Edition: New Ed. /
Publication date: 2008-06-21
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Stone of Destiny / Birlinn Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.01
Review Unsung Hero / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99
Review The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty / The Collins Press:
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions Hardcover Ed
Publication date: 2007-11-06
Dewey code: 341.2373
RRP: £18.99
Price: £3.53
Review Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations / Pocket Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 973.923092
RRP: £10.68
Price: £7.49
Review Master of the Senate: The Years of LBJ, Vol. III (Caro, Robert a. Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) / Vintage Books USA:
Publication date: 2005-09-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.93
Review Disraeli: A Personal History / Element Books:
Publication date: 2005-10-21
Dewey code: 193
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.62
Review Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers) / Verso Books:
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
Publication date: 1993-10-28
Dewey code: 973.918092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.26
Review Truman / Simon & Schuster:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 942.050922
RRP: £18.00
Price: £10.36
Review The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne / The National Archives:
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.57
Review An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History / Harvill Secker:
Publication date: 2002-05-30
Dewey code: 192
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.65
Review Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-03-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.23
Review Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 942.022092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £7.99
Review Conqueror's Son: Duke Robert Curthose, Thwarted King / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1993-10-31
Dewey code: 941.0857
RRP: £27.99
Price: £19.58
Review The Downing Street Years / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2008-02-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.95
Review Saddam Hussein - The Butcher of Baghdad (Biography) / Filiquarian Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-05-07
Dewey code: 937.07
RRP: £21.99
Price: £17.54
Review Aspects of Roman History, A.D.14-117 / Routledge:
Publication date: 2001-10-12
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £30.00
Price: £49.98
Review Churchill: A Biography / Macmillan:Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments-at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy. -Miles Taylor.
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