Churchill [electronic resource] : the unexpected hero / Paul Addison.

By: Addison, Paul, 1943-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: viii, 308 pSubject(s): Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 | Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 941.084/092 | B LOC classification: DA566.9.C5 | A633 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The youngest man in Europe, 1874-1901 -- The renegade, 1901-1911 -- The Lilliput Napoleon, 1911-1915 -- The Winstonburg line, 1915-1924 -- Respectability won and lost, 1924-1939 -- The making of a hero, 1939-1945 -- Climbing Olympus, 1945-1965 -- Churchill past and present.
Summary: "In this incisive biography, Paul Addison examines both the life of the most iconic figure in twentieth-century Bristish history, and the battle over his reputation, which continues to this day."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-285) and index.

The youngest man in Europe, 1874-1901 -- The renegade, 1901-1911 -- The Lilliput Napoleon, 1911-1915 -- The Winstonburg line, 1915-1924 -- Respectability won and lost, 1924-1939 -- The making of a hero, 1939-1945 -- Climbing Olympus, 1945-1965 -- Churchill past and present.

"In this incisive biography, Paul Addison examines both the life of the most iconic figure in twentieth-century Bristish history, and the battle over his reputation, which continues to this day."--Jacket.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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