Churchill: a life

by Gilbert, Martin

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Title Statements

Full title :Churchill : a life / Martin Gilbert.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pimlico
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

Notes

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1991.

The Physical Object

Description:1066 pages,64 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, portraits ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0712667253, 9780712667258
oclc:on1000507797
LC Classification:DA566.9.C5
Dewey Decimal:941.082092

Childhood -- Harrow -- Towards the Army -- Second Lieutenant -- In Action -- To Omdurman and beyond -- South Africa: Adventure, Capture, Escape -- Into Parliament -- Revolt and Responsibilities -- The Social Field -- Home Secretary -- At the Admiralty -- The Coming of War in 1914 -- War -- Isolation and Escape -- In the Trenches -- 'Deep and Ceaseless Torments' -- Minister of Munitions -- At the War Office -- Colonial Secretary -- Return to the Wilderness -- At the Exchequer -- Out of Office -- The Moment of Truth -- No Place for Churchill -- From Munich to War -- Return to the Admiralty -- Prime Minister -- Britain at Bay -- The Widening War -- Planning for Victory -- Illness and Recovery -- Normandy and Beyond -- War and Diplomacy -- 'Advance, Britannia!' -- 'An Iron Curtain' -- Mapping the Past, Guiding the Future -- Prime Minister in Peacetime -- Recovery, Last Ambition, Resignation -- Last Years.