Winston Churchill

Churchill, Randolph S. Winston S. Churchill-Youth 1874-1900. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.

The dust jacket reads: In writing this definitive biography of his father, Mr. Randolph Churchill has had the exclusive use of Sir Winston's letters and papers. The form in which the work, to consist of five volumes, is cast is summed up in the phrase that Randolph quotes from Lockhart: "He shall be his own biographer." The author presents Churchill, as far as possible, through his own words. Never is there a statement which has not been thoroughly and satisfactorily authenticated. The result is a taut and vivid account, of which the life blood is immediacy. This first volume covers the years from Churchill's birth to his return to England from an American lecture tour, on the very day of Queen Victoria's funeral. Now Winston Churchill was to embark on his political career. In the opening pages, the account of his birth is presented through letters of his family. Winston comes on the scene with his own words in a letter to his mother, written when he was seven. His later letters, as a child, as a boy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and above all as a subaltern in India, show the development of his mind and character, his ambition and awakening interests, which were to merge into a genius of our age. Mr. Churchill presents facts relevant to the subject and the personalities discussed and fills in the historical background of the last twenty-six years of the nineteenth century. Here is all the excitement of the beginning of the extraordinary career and the forging of a remarkable personality. Churchill's early life was far from unclouded, nor was his rise to fame free from setbacks. His father, Lord Randolph, had been elected to Parliament in 1874 and his political duties and his beautiful American wife's energetic social life left them little time to devote to their son. There are many touching letters from the boy begging, with great dignity, for his parents to take more interest in him. Lord Randolph's rise was rapid but so was his decline, and before Winston was twenty-one he had died. At school Winston's progress was anything but meteoric. But the letters, and Randolph Churchill's commentary on that period, belie the legend that Winston was a lazy boy. He was not. At a very early age, however, he saw through much of the arid uselessness of conventional schooling and stubbornly confined his interests to the subjects which attracted him and which he considered useful. He failed twice to gain admission to Sandhurst and his father plainly showed his bitter disappointment. In the South African War, Churchill, both as a soldier and as a journalist making his spectacular escape from a Boer prison, reveals all the energy and tenacity which accompanied his natural but often unconventional dash. By the end of the century he knew what he intended to do and there is an air of expectancy and inevitability about his first entry into political life when the Queen died and both the nineteenth century and his own ad- venturous youth were to give way to a career of continuing audacity. The four subsequent volumes will cover the following periods: Volume II: 1901- 1914; Volume III: 1915-1922; Volume IV: 1923-1939; Volume V: 1940-1965. The collection of Churchill papers is so rich and voluminous that they will be published as five or more separate Companion Volumes, each one appearing at a short interval after the related volume of the main work. The book has 629 pages with 32 pages of black and white photos. In addition there are 7 map illustrations. This book is a BOOK CLUB EDITION. The book is in very good condition with the owner's label on inside of cover. The jacket is in very condition with minor breaking along edges and a small split on top left back. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. Hard Cover condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

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Pearson, John. The Private Lives of Winston Churchill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN: 0671631535

First edition The Dust Jacket reads: He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness.At the height of his power,he semed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor, pride, and above all, tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply in the legacy of his birthright, the heritage of his family, and the awesome responsibility of being born Churchill. In "The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, John Pearson takes us behind the myth of Churchill and deep into the psychology of a dynasty that some have called the most complicated Anglo-American family of this century. In doing so, he reveals, in rich portraits, some of the family's greatest, most charismatic, and most deeply troubled members and shows us the real, private Winston Churchill. Here was a man obsessed--withhimself and his dreams of glory. Yet, at the same time, he was haunted by strange anxieties and recurring depressions, by the memory of his mother, Jennie, the Brooklyn-born society beauty who counted England's most influential men among her circle of lovers, and by his father, Lord Randolph, whose extraordinary political rise was matched only by his speedy, tragic downfall. John Pearson shows how Churchill's parents and the towering achievements of his ancestor, the first great Duke of Marlborough, dominated Winston's heart and mind-just as he himself would come to dominate the fates of his own wife, son, and daughters. "The Private Lifes of Winston Ahurchill" is a family saga played out against the great evets and darkest hours of Englands-history-the world wars, the political intrigues of Parliament he scandals that kept the Churchills in the columns, and the momentous desisions that kept them in the headlines.With Winston at the center, Pearson travels through the generations, revealing the high costs of the family's accomplishments and the suffering behind the seemingly glamorous exploits. Never before have the Churchills been observed so closely or so truly. John Pearson brings them, and their friends, lovers, and rivals, to life once more. This book has 476 pages including Source Notes, Select Bibliography and index. There are 16 pages of black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION copy. The condition of this book is NEAR FIND showing a small spot on the lower page edges and additional owners name on the cover sheet. The jacket is inNEAR FINEcondition with the price being clipped. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duches of Windsor ... and other curious people. Hard Cover condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

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Diverse Autoren: CHURCHILL - 6 TITEL: Churchill / Winston Churchill / Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin / Der Zweite Weltkrieg. / Die unheilige Allianz. / LIFE - Winston Churchill.
(1) Krockow, Christian Graf von: Churchill. Eine Biographie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1999. 2.Auflage. OPpbd., Schutzumschlag; 8°; 382 S., 1 Bll. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen im Text. - Tadellos (deutsch) // (2) Longford, Elisabeth: Winston Churchill. An authorized biography. Panther Granada Publishing, London u.a., 1978. Taschenbuch, 8°; 155 S.; Kanten etwas bestoßen, sonst gut erhalten (in engl. Sprache) // (3) Feis, Herbert: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin - The war they waged and the peace they sought. Princeton University, 1967. OKarton, 8°; einige Karten, 692 S., - Einband u. die ersten Bll. m. kl. abgefärbtem Rand, Rücken abgegriffen, sonst gut - (in engl. Sprache). // (4) Churchill, Winston, S.: Der zweite Weltkrieg. Mit einem Epilog über die Nachkriegslage. Berlin-Darmstadt-Wien. Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft. 1960. OHalbleder, 8°, 1135 S., Zustand: sehr gut. Schönes Exemplar, ohne Schutzumschlag; lediglich kl. Namensstempel a. Vorsatz (deutsch). // (5) Rexin, Manfred (Hg.): Die unheilige Allianz. Stalins Briefwechsel mit Churchill 1941-1945. Mit einer Einleitung u. Erläuterungen. Rowohlt Verlag. 1964. Taschenbuch, 8°; 476 S. - Eibnband etwas abgegriffen, sonst gutes Exemplar. // (6) LIFE. International Edition. February 8, 1965. Vo.38, No.3. Winston Churchill: The dramatic life of the man of the century - 13 pages of pictures in a historic Album. New York, Time Inc., 1965. Magazin, 4to, 72 S., Abb. - Gut erhalten, geringe Gebrauchsspuren. Weitere Stories: Peter O'Toole as "Lord Jim": The star's misadventure on location in the Far East, The Inauguration of President Johnson: Gay goings-on in Washington on a serious occasion... -

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Olsen, Marvine E.: Power in Societies, Collier Macmillan, 1970. ISBN: 9780023892509
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