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Churchill defiant : fighting on, 1945-1955
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Recounts Winston Churchill's second term as prime minister and his mission to win a lasting peace, waging war with both his closest colleagues and his most indispensable allies, the Americans, to p...
Recounts Winston Churchill's second term as prime minister and his mission to win a lasting peace, waging war with both his closest colleagues and his most indispensable allies, the Americans, to persuade them to negotiate with the Soviets.
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- Creator
- Barbara Leaming
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- Language
- English
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- 1st Harper Perennial ed
- New York : Harper, ©2011
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- vi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780061337604, 0061337609
- OCLC
- ocn793634659
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-341) and index.
- You will, but I shall not: Berlin, July 1945 -- Face facts and retire: London, 1945 -- Sans soucis et sans regrets: Lake Como, September 1945 -- Old man in a hurry: London, October 1945 -- The wet hen: St James's Palace, 1946 -- Winnie, Winnie, go away: Miami Beach, Florida, 1946 -- Imperious Caesar: Southampton, England, 1946 -- Plots and plotters: Hyde Park Gate, 1947 -- Before it is too late: Westminster Abbey, November 1947 -- The dagger is pointed: La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail, France, August 1949 -- Another glass of your excellent champagne: Venice, 1951 -- White with the bones of Englishmen: London, October 1951 -- Naked among mine enemies: New York, January 1952 -- I live here, don't I? London, 1952 -- If nothing can be arranged: Jamaica, January 1953 -- The abdication of Diocletian: Buckingham Palace, 1953 -- I have a right to be heard! Bermuda, December 1953 -- An obstinate pig: aboard the Queen Elizabeth, July 1954 -- The "R" word: Westminster Hall, November 1954