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Max Beaverbrook

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785900307
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Max Beaverbrook written by Charles Williams and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial magician, flamboyant politician, minister in both world wars, press baron, serial philanderer, Winston Churchill's boon companion in the dark days of 1940-41 and in his later years, Max Beaverbrook was without a doubt one of the most colourful characters of the first half of the twentieth century. Born and brought up in the Scottish Presbyterian fastness of northeast Canada, he escaped to make his fortune in Canadian financial markets. By 1910, when he migrated to Britain at the age of thirty-one, he was already a multimillionaire. With a seat in the House of Commons and then a peerage, he came to know all the senior figures in both British and Canadian politics. In acquiring the Daily Express, he not only built it into a news empire but used its considerable influence to campaign for his own pet causes. As Charles Williams's sweeping biography shows, Beaverbrook was loved and loathed in equal measure. Nevertheless, Williams brings to life a rounded character, with all its flaws and virtues. Above all, it is a story of eighty years of entrepreneurism, political dogfights, wars, sex and grand living, all set in the rich tapestry of the dramatic years of the twentieth century.

LIFE

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-08-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Beaverbrook

Author : Alan John Percivale Taylor
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Beaverbrook written by Alan John Percivale Taylor and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beaverbrook Girl

Author : Janet Aitken Kidd
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Beaverbrook Girl written by Janet Aitken Kidd and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-12-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

All Behind You, Winston

Author : Roger Hermiston
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781314845
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book All Behind You, Winston written by Roger Hermiston and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Behind You, Winston tells the story of the most remarkable gathering of leaders in modern British history: the War Ministry that saw the country through its darkest - and finest - hour. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, it was not with the unanimous support of Westminster or the country. For many, Lord Halifax was the obvious choice to succeed Neville Chamberlain, and Churchill's grasp of the Home Front appeared uncertain at best. He assembled around him, however, a Cabinet of 'all the talents'; which would variously mobilise, arm, feed, fund, shelter, evacuate, heal and, ultimately, save Britain. Among these remarkable men - and women - were Churchill's rivals Lord Halifax and Sir Stafford Cripps, the loyal and dogged Clement Attlee, titanic egos such as Lord Beaverbrook and John Reith, the popular department store owner Lord Woolton (the man who kept the nation fed), the propagandist and playboy Duff Cooper, and many of the statesmen who would go on to build the New Jerusalem in peacetime. By 1945 they had not only steered the country to victory, they had also ensured Churchill's inviolable position in our national myth - an outcome that had seemed far from likely five years earlier. In a series of character-driven chapters, Roger Hermiston, a former deputy editor on Radio 4-s Today and the author of The Greatest Traitor, tells the behind-closed-doors story of the key figures and key ministries, delving deep into the archives to bring to life a Cabinet that was both the brain and the conscience of the nation.

Winston's Bandits

Author : Adrian Phillips
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785909266
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Winston's Bandits written by Adrian Phillips and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T Though today he is hailed as one of Britain's greatest leaders, throughout his career, Winston Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him – but these strong and often feuding personalities proved to be vital to his decision-making in war and peace alike. Winston's Bandits provides, for the first time, a detailed account of his greatest friendships. These friends were Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, a press baron who craved power but only on his own terms; Frederick Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, an ascetic and quarrelsome scientist who believed in Churchill's intellectual genius; Brendan Bracken, an Irishman from a humble background who reinvented himself as a major force in financial publishing and gave Churchill unconditional support; the young Bob Boothby, who would earn notoriety for adventurous sexual conduct and dubious financial dealings; Randolph Churchill, who was often a disappointment and burden to his father; and Duncan Sandys, who reaped the full benefits of being Churchill's son-in-law in his political career. Together, they were Winston's bandits. This remarkable book explores how Churchill's relationships with these forceful and intriguing sparring partners provide the key to understanding his greatest triumphs and disasters.

Mountbatten

Author : Adrian Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714929
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Mountbatten written by Adrian Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was he a far-sighted war hero, or an ambitious networker promoted well above his natural talent? Admired as a modernising chief of staff, a timely decoloniser, and a genuine player on the world stage, Mountbatten nevertheless continues to attract fierce criticism. In this timely new biography, Adrian Smith offers a fresh and convincing perspective, depicting Mountbatten as a quintessentially modern, highly professional figure within the Royal Navy, and at Combined Operations and SE Asia Command, a hands-on officer who enthusiastically embraced new technology; someone who, although an aristocrat, was by instinct a progressive, innovative in his approach to man management. Smith brings Mountbatten to life, acknowledging the essential qualities as well as the obvious weaknesses. Beneath the rich, vain, often ruthless, embodiment of power and privilege could be found a very human, even vulnerable, character - the complex personality of a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain and her empire.

The Federal Court of Canada

Author : Ian Bushnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802042071
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Federal Court of Canada written by Ian Bushnell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authoritative history of the Federal Court of Canada. The judges' work in various areas of substantive law provides illustrations of the functioning of the Court in the adjudication of disputes.

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company

Author : Lewis E. Lehrman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765474
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Churchill, Roosevelt & Company written by Lewis E. Lehrman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war. But the ultimate victory of that partnership has obscured many of the conflicts behind Franklin Roosevelt’s grins and Winston Churchill’s victory signs, the clashes of principles and especially personalities between and within the two nations. Synthesizing an impressive variety of sources from memoirs and letters to histories and biographies, Lewis Lehrman explains how the Anglo-American alliance worked--and occasionally did not work--by presenting portraits and case studies of the men who worked the back channels and back rooms, the secretaries and under secretaries, ambassadors and ministers, responsible for carrying out Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s agendas while also pursuing their own and thwarting others’. This was the domain of Joseph Kennedy, American ambassador to England often at odds with his boss; spymasters William Donovan and William Stephenson; Secretary of State Cordell Hull, whom FDR frequently bypassed in favor of Under Secretary Sumner Welles; British ambassadors Lord Lothian and Lord Halifax; and, above them all, Roosevelt and Churchill, who had the difficult task, not always well performed, of managing their subordinates and who frequently chose to conduct foreign policy directly between themselves. Scrupulous in its research and fair in its judgments, Lehrman’s book reveals the personal diplomacy at the core of the Anglo-American alliance.

The 20th Century A-GI

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593349
Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The 20th Century A-GI written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

A. J. P. Taylor

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349230235
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book A. J. P. Taylor written by Robert Cole and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-12-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michael Foot and the Labour Leadership

Author : Andrew Scott Crines
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443832391
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Michael Foot and the Labour Leadership written by Andrew Scott Crines and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Foot’s political career can simplistically be characterised by cataclysmic failures within the period between 1979 and 1983, culminating in Labour’s substantial electoral defeat. Developments within political discourse have since sought to perpetuate this characterisation by utilising the defeat as a justification for the subsequent modernisations. However, this analysis does not entirely appreciate the significance of Foot’s leadership. This book argues that far from being a disaster, Foot’s leadership in fact contributed to the survival of the Labour Party. Foot’s political education, political evolution, and experiences between him joining the Party in 1935 and the end of his ministerial career in 1979 enabled him to emerge as the unity candidate in opposition to the divisive potential of a Denis Healey or Tony Benn leadership. Foot’s support base included moderate social democrats and moderate left-wing MP’s as well as centrists who opposed radicals from both sides. This subverts the orthodox assumption of Foot’s election being indicative of a sudden and simplistic left-wing domination after 1979. This book will be of particular interest to those seeking to develop their knowledge of Michael Foot, the Labour Party and their ideological diversity.

Canadian National Records for Sheep

Author : Canadian national live stock records office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian National Records for Sheep written by Canadian national live stock records office and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

LIFE

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Literature of Journalism

Author : Price
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912459
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Journalism written by Price and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Civilians in the Front Line

Author : Helen Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719072901
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book British Civilians in the Front Line written by Helen Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the behavior of British civilians and their reactions to air raids during the Second World War. It unravels the day-to-day influence on people at these times of great danger, risk and uncertainty, and challenges the traditional image of civilians as passive shelterers under attack. It uncovers Churchill and his government's desperate attempts to persuade key workers to continue with their work once the air raid siren had sounded, and reveals the complex reasons why so many workers were willing to run such risks.