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by Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill. 299 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill

Publisher:

   G.P. Putnam's sons

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1937
Subjects:   Biography--20th Cent, Great Britain--Biography
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1.
The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain - Vol. 1
Book by A. T. Mahan; Little Brown and Company, 1897
Subjects: Admirals--Great Britain--Biography, Great Britain--History, Naval--18th Century, Great Britain--History, Naval--19th Century, Nelson, Horatio Nelson--Viscount--1758-1805
...Walpole, the famous prime minister of Great Britain during twenty years of the reigns of...as a possession by both Spain and Great Britain. The latter had upon them a settlement...styled the Leeward Islands Station. Great Britain was then fully embarked in the war...
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The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain - Vol. 2
Book by A. T. Mahan; Little, Brown, 1897
Subjects: Admirals--Great Britain--Biography, Great Britain--History, Naval--18th Century, Great Britain--History, Naval--19th Century, Nelson, Horatio Nelson--Viscount--1758-1805
...THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN BY CAPTAIN A. T. MAHAN, D.C.L...Origin of the trouble between Great Britain and Denmark 60...if they got wind of the purpose of Great Britain to restore the hated Order of Knights...
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Great Contemporaries
Book by Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill; G.P. Putnams sons, 1937
Subjects: Biography--20th Cent, Great Britain--Biography
...increasingly a cause of discord. Great Britain is a constitutional democracy, and...Participation in any war against Great Britain. The Kaiser had already in 1902 given...particularly his most powerful enemies Great Britain and France, would regard the Hohenzollern...
4.
Great Britain and the United States: A History of Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1952
Book by H. C. Allen; Odhams Press, 1954
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES A History of Anglo-American Relations 1783-1952 GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES A History...Copyright T.1154.L MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ODHAMS WATFORD LTD. WATFORD...
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Great Britain and the United States: A History of Anglo-American Relations (1783-1952)
Book by H. C. Allen; St. Martins Press, 1955
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, United States--History
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES A History of Anglo-American Relations 1783-1952 GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES A History...clear and cogent The United States, Great Britain and British North America, 1783-1814...
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Jay Winter. Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century
Journal article by Daniel Todman; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Remembering War: The Great War Between History and Memory in the 20th Century (Book)--Book reviews
...between History and Memory in the 20th Century. by Daniel Todman...has a threefold meaning. The "Great War" is the First World War...the war in parallel bears out Britains fortune in escaping invasion...postwar remembrance persists in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New...
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Posthumous Fame and Writing of the Self by the "Great" Landgrafin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt
Journal article by Helga Meise; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Henriette, Landgrafin Karoline--Biography, Princesses--Biography, Women authors--Biography, Women writers--Biography
...education and well-established, it wont be the same with me if I should die in the early years." In 1740 Marie, nee Princess of Great Britain (1723-1772), married Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel (1720-1785). 17. See also the article by Corinna Heipcke in...
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Eccentric Biography and the Victorians
Journal article by James Gregory; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Biographers--Criticism and interpretation, Biographers--Works, Biographies--Authorship, Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biographies--Works, Biography--Authorship, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Works, Eccentricities--Portrayals, Eccentrics and eccentricities--Portrayals, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Influence, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Works, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Influence, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Works
Eccentric Biography and the Victorians. by James Gregory In 1846, the writer William...Reputation. Rochester: Camden House, 2001. Malcolm, Robert. Curiosities of Biography, or, memoirs of wonderful and extraordinary characters. London: Griffin...
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Perilous Royal Biography: Representations of Catherine II Immediately after Her Seizure of the Throne
Journal article by Ruth Dawson; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Catherine II, Empress of Russia--History, Catherine II, Empress of Russia--Powers and duties, Empires--History, Empires--Powers and duties, Karsch, Anna Luise--Works
...attempted to enlarge Catherines biography. Since so little was known...overthrow by invoking gender and biography in two areas: Peters alarming...accepted Peter because he was the great empresss nephew and the successor...where the less circulated biography was produced. 13. According...Alexander, John T. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. New York...
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Ethnology and Biography: The Case of the Brownings
Journal article by Joseph Phelan; Biography, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Biography--Authorship, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Browning, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Names--Social aspects, Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Racially mixed people
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When Britain Was Great
Magazine article by Martin Walker; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 30, Winter 2006
Subjects: British history--Analysis, Historical works--Analysis, Nelson, Horatio--Portrayals
...one that was to endure well into the 20th century, until Britains impoverishment...naval dominance that Knights scholarly new biography, the first to be rooted solidly in contemporary...the novelist A. N. Wilsons history of Britain in the first half of the 20th century...
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History and Biography: Simon Sebag Montefiore Considers the Issues Involved in Writing the Biography of One of History's Monsters
Magazine article by Simon Sebag Montefiore; History Today, Vol. 54, March 2004
Subjects: Biographers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Dictators--Analysis, Historians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hussein, Saddam--Travel, Stalin, Joseph--Analysis
...whether to abandon Moscow in 1941. And he openly based himself on Ivan the Terrible, scribbling teacher all over his biography, and telling the film-maker Eisenstein, who was making a movie of the Tsar, that Ivan was cruel because he had to be...
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Biography of the Pictorial Print
Magazine article by Tony Patti; PSA Journal, Vol. 71, May 2005
Subjects: Photography--History, Pictorial works--History
Biography of the Pictorial Print. by Tony Patti A short time after photography came into being, Albert Bisbee stated in his book on Daguerreotyping, "One of the greatest advantages of the Daguerreotype is that it acts with a certainty and extent...
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Pushkin: A Biography
Magazine article by Andrew Reynolds; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Winter 2004
Subjects: Pushkin: A Biography (Book)
Pushkin: A Biography. by Andrew Reynolds By T. J. Binyon. Knopf. 727 pp. $35 In the view of his friend Nikolai Gogol, the poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was "an extraordinary and perhaps unique manifestation of the...
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National Biography for a Computer Age
Magazine article by Brian Harrison; History Today, Vol. 51, August 2001
Subjects: Dictionary of National Biography (Book)--Publishing, Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias--Publishing, Matthew, Colin--Management
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY FOR A COMPUTER AGE. by Brian Harrison...contributors have now delivered about 90 per cent of the 50,000 biographies (in over 50...portrait illustrations, thereby enhancing one biography in five. Our collaboration with the National...
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THE WINDSOR'S KNOT; It's Almost 70 Years since Edward VIII Ended His Short Reign, Giving Up His Throne for 'The Woman I Love'. WALLIS SIMPSON Was Blamed for His Abdication and Labelled a Schemer. but, Says SARAH WILLIAMS, Author of a New TV Film in Which Joely Richardson Plays Simpson, Edward's Lover Was the Victim of One of History's Great Smear Campaigns
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 3, 2005
Subjects: Edward VIII (Great Britain and Ireland), Simpson, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor
...browsing in a bookshop in California and came across a new biography of Wallis Simpson, I picked it up. And put it straight...later, the mudslinging continues. Michael Blochs 1996 biography hinted that Wallis was a hermaphrodite and put forward...
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The Great Diana Debate; Is the Princess a Manipulator or a Victim? Two Writers Give Their Very Different Verdicts on the Issue Dividing Britain
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 1, 1996
...foolish in taking part in the Dimbleby documentary and biography. Then came the Panorama interview. It was her last desperate...say it, a King needs a Queen at his side. She will be a great loss - and I and millions of people will regret her departure...
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INTERNATIONAL: 'Last Great Director' Dies at 81
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 22, 2006
Subjects: Filmmakers--Biography, M*A*S*H (Motion picture), Movie directors--Biography
...M*A*S*H, said Altmans legacy would "nuture and inspire filmmakers and artists for generations to come". "He was the last great American director in the tradition of John Ford," Gould said. "He was my friend and Ill always be grateful to him for the...The Gingerbread Man in 1998, Cookies Fortune in 1999 and Dr T The Women in 2000, Altman took his all-American cynicism to Britain for 2001s Gosford Park. A combination murder-mystery and class-war satire set among snobbish socialites and their servants...
4.
Glossy Portrait of an Elusive Legend; OLIVIER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by Terry Coleman, Published by Bloomsbury, Pounds 20
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 16, 2005
Glossy Portrait of an Elusive Legend; OLIVIER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by Terry Coleman, Published by Bloomsbury, Pounds 20. Byline: ANTHONY LOOCH Laurence Olivier is considered by many...
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Showing the Person Behind the Icon; on Her Death, She Became an Angel to the Animal Rights' Movement. Now Vicki Moore's Biography Is Being Written by Her Husband's New Partner. David Charters Reports
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 2, 2006
...Became an Angel to the Animal Rights Movement. Now Vicki Moores Biography Is Being Written by Her Husbands New Partner. David Charters Reports...a rescued donkey Tony Moore with Matilda, who is writing Vickis biography Picture: EDDIE BARFORD
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George I , King of Great Britain and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...of the reign, beginning his long tenure as virtual prime minister. George was succeeded by his son, George II. See biography by J. H. Plumb, The First Four Georges (1956); A. Redman, The House of Hanover (1960, repr. 1968); B. Williams...
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George VI , King of Great Britain and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...end of 1948. Like his father, George was held in deep affection by his people. He was succeeded by Elizabeth II. See biography by S. Bradford (1989). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University...
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Biography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BIOGRAPHY reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real...first biographies of ordinary men, the Dialogues of Plato (4th cent. b.c.) and the Gospels of the New Testament (1st and 2d cent...As a result of Freud s defining of the unconscious, the 20th cent. produced a new sort of biography one that used the technique...
4.
London , City, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...constructed by government authorities. The growth of London in the 20th cent. has been extensively planned. One notable feature has been...Inwood, A History of London (1999); P. Ackroyd, London: The Biography (2001). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...and Malawi. In 1992 93, the worst African drought of the 20th cent. and numerous civil wars were the primary causes of a famine...Oliver, The African Experience (1992); J. Reader, Africa: A Biography of the Continent (1998); K. A. Appiah and H. L. Gates, Jr...
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