Creates a portrait, highlighted by details and anecdotes, that captures the brilliance, egotism, and heroism of this twentieth-century giant

Winston Churchill: A Biography

BRENDON, Piers

Harpercollins

Examines the contradictory interpretations of Dwight David Eisenhower's effectiveness as a leader and analyzes his paradoxical personality--one possessed of strong passions but a weak character, noble instincts but irresolute will, and generous impluses but selfish motives

Ike: His Life and Times

Biographies & Memoirs

A sharp and witty analysis of four characters who have illuminated the age of Elizabeth II: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, and Mick Jagger Modeled on Lytton Strachey's classic portrayal of eminent Victorians, Piers Brendon's cameo biographies shed dazzling new light on the age of Queen Elizabeth II. All four of his characters have loomed large in the annals of their time. All have aroused controversy in the uttermost corners of the earth, stirring passions as much by personality as by performance. And all have promoted revolt yet championing continuity, flirting with radicalism yet embracing conservatism. Brendon's cast list is as follows: Margaret Thatcher—the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mold of post-war British politics. Rupert Murdoch—the billionaire media mogul whose empire, built on an ethical void, has polluted the channels of communication from London to Sydney, from New York to New Guinea. Prince Charles—the royal dilettante whose erratic exploits shook the throne and put his own succession to it at risk. Mick Jagger—lead singer of the Rolling Stones, who embodied the 1960s counter-culture of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll yet aspired to be a gentleman and accepted a knighthood at the behest of Tony Blair. Each is vividly and vitally depicted through pungent anecdote, piquant quotation, and mordant commentary. In short, these striking miniatures are as entertaining as they are illuminating.

Eminent Elizabethans: Murdoch, Thatcher, Jagger & Prince Charles

Historical

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback
'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 months'. From the death of his father in 1936 to the constitutional crisis provoked by his proposal to the then-married American socialite Wallis Simpson and his subsequent abdication, Edward VIII reigned for less than year. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward fulfilled his father's prophecy and instigated the monarchy's most significant upheaval of the twentieth century. Retitled 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially exiled, Edward has remained a controversial figure ever since. Through his correspondence with, amongst other confidants, Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon traces Edward's tumultuous life in this superb, pacey biography.

Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

Penguin Uk

Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of a Victorian eccentric

JONATHAN CAPE.

Physical description; xviii, 701 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; 1930-1939. World politics - 1933-1945. National socialism.

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

History

World

A comprehensive, scholarly and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire. No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves, and a quarter of the earth’s surface was coloured red on the map. Where Britain’s writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless industrial and commercial sinews, was often paramount. Yet no empire (except for the Russian) disappeared more swiftly. Within a generation, this mighty structure sank almost without trace leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of empire — the Commonwealth. Equally, it can be claimed that Britain bequeathed its former colonies economic foundations, a cultural legacy, a sporting spirit, a legal code and a language more ubiquitous than Latin ever was. Full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire evokes remote places as well as distant times.

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Europe

 • Rupert Murdoch, outrageous media baron whose empire, built in an 'ethical void', controls contemporary channels of knowledge;  • Prince Charles, quack dilettante whose messy private life shook the throne;  • Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer whose authoritarian regime undid much of Britain's post-war legacy; and  • Mick Jagger, the big-lipped egotist whose excesses epitomized the swinging sixties.Each had their part to play in the continuity and change that marked the twentieth century, from the cultural revolution of the 1960s which transformed the modern world, to the subsequent reaction against this modern devil's decade.Modelled on Lytton Strachey's classic work about the Victorians, these irreverent and insightful miniatures, set in vivid historical context, shed new light on the Elizabethan age as a whole.

Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Charles & Mick Jagger

First published in 1992, a collection of four biographical essays on eminent Victorians, focusing on Prime Minister Balfour, suffragette Mrs. Pankhurst, Baden-Powell, and Lord Northcliffe.

Eminent Edwardians

Reference & Collections

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Physical description; xix, 235 pages ; 23 cm. Subject; Froude, Richard Hurrell 1803-1836.

Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement

Paul Elek

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