Giants Cast Long Shadows
Author: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 264
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Witness to History
Author: Victoria Schofield
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-07-16
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0300182147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political operators. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the inter-war years and knew all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He also was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI's official biographer, he met and interviewed all the major leaders in the post-war period, including Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and members of the Royal Family; he also supervised young Jack Kennedy's master's thesis. With the first biography of Wheeler-Bennett Victoria Schofield has written a book tha will fascinate anyone interested in twentieth-century European history.
Selling War
Author: Nicholas John Cull
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-09-26
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0199880476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell; Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.
The Fall of a Titan
Author: Gary Porter
Publisher: Field Books
Published:
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lights are blinding, the stadium thrumming with anticipation, the air thick with tension. It's a scene that's played out countless times before, yet each match feels like a unique battle, a contest not just of skill and strategy but of will and determination. This is the world of professional football, a world where heroes are born and legends are made, where every victory is cherished and every defeat stings deeply. In this story, we meet a manager who has tasted success, who has known the intoxicating rush of victory and the adoration of the fans. But his world is now teetering on the edge of collapse. His team is struggling, the media is relentless, and the whispers of doubt are growing louder. He is a fallen titan, caught in a downward spiral that threatens to consume him. "The Fall of a Titan" is a journey into the heart of this man's struggle, a story of redemption, resilience, and the enduring power of the human spirit. It is a story about the price of success, the fragility of fame, and the importance of staying true to oneself even when the world seems to be closing in. Prepare to be swept away by the intensity and passion of the game, to feel the sting of defeat and the thrill of victory, and to witness the human cost of chasing glory.
Appeasement
Author: Tim Bouverie
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2020-06-02
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0451499859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II “An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe. Drawing on deep archival research and sources not previously seen by historians, Tim Bouverie has created an unforgettable portrait of the ministers, aristocrats, and amateur diplomats who, through their actions and inaction, shaped their country's policy and determined the fate of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, we embark on a fascinating journey from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us not only into the backrooms of Parliament and 10 Downing Street but also into the drawing rooms and dining clubs of fading imperial Britain, where Hitler enjoyed surprising support among the ruling class and even some members of the royal family. Both sweeping and intimate, Appeasement is not only an eye-opening history but a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism--and the calamity that results from failing to do so.
Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill
Author: Curt Zoller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 131747659X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique resource will be an enormous aid and impetus to Churchill studies. It lists over 600 works, with annotations, and includes sections listing an additional 5,900 entries covering book reviews, significant articles, and chapters from books. Separate author and title indexes will allow the user to locate specific entries. The book's aim is to direct students, researchers, and bibliophiles to the entire corpus of works about Churchill.
Scoring for Britain
Author: Peter J. Beck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1135230307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda.
Moura
Author: Nina Berberova
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781590171370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaroness Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff Budberg hailed from the Russian aristocracy and lived in the lap of luxury—until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Thereafter her existence was a story of connivance and stratagem, a succession of unlikely twists and turns. Intimately involved in the mysterious Lockhart affair, a conspiracy which almost brought down the fledgling Soviet state, mistress to Maxim Gorky and then to H.G. Wells, Moura was a woman of enormous energy, intelligence, and charm whose deepest passion was undoubtedly the mythologization of her own life. Recognized as one of the great masters of Russian twentieth-century fiction, Nina Berberova here proves again that she is the unsurpassed chronicler of the lives of Soviet émigrés. In Moura Budberg, a woman who shrouded the facts of her life in fiction, Berberova finds the ideal material from which to craft a triumph of literary portraiture, a book as engaging and as full of life and incident as any one of her celebrated novels.
