The book was published in 1900. More important, however, were Churchill's accounts of the military campaigns in which he participated. Savrola was followed by a book about the reconquest of the Sudan (1899), in which he had also taken part. As a journalist for the Morning Post, he ...
Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 at his grandfather's home, Blenheim Palace in Marlborough,England. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a member of the British Parliament and his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American heiress. Six years after Winston's birth, his brother ...
Burton also occasionally appeared on television, notably playing Winston Churchill in the TV movie The Gathering Storm (1974) and Richard Wagner in the miniseries Wagner, which first aired in the early 1980s and later was released as a movie. Burton meanwhile continued to receive critical acclaim...
In 1951, 77-year-old Winston Churchill became prime minister for the second time. He spent most of this term working (unsuccessfully) to build a sustainable détente between the East and the West. He retired from the post in 1955. In 1953, Queen Elizabeth made Winston Churchill a knight of...
Sir Winston Churchill’s magnificent life of his ancestorJohn Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, can be read as a history (written from a special point of view) of Britain and much of Europe during theWar of the Spanish Succession(1701–14). Yet there is general recognition today that ...
Warren Buffett is one of the richest men in America and one of the most respected. Known for showing great humility, he has been shrouded in enigma as he lives a very private life (until this biography anyway). Entrusting his life story to Alice Schroeder, Alicewrites the bookthat Buffett...
nor from speculating about potential skeletons in their closet. For example, even modern authors like Ron Chernow and Andrew Roberts, who take more of a heroic stance towards their subjects, will write about and address the poor treatment of George Washington’s slaves or Winston Churchill’s bel...
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while others exploited his prophecies for deadlier purposes. Josef Goebbels used the prophecies of Nostradamus as a Nazi propaganda weapon during World War II, while Britain’s legendary prime minister Winston Churchill retaliated with his own platoon of interpreters, until even Louis B. Meyer, the ...
British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill, and Soviet leaderJoseph Stalinat theYalta Conferenceand the prominent roleenvisionedfor the Soviet Union in postwar Europe. Pius’s worst fears soon materialized as Soviet domination spread andCardinal József MindszentyofHungaryand Cardinal Stefan Wysziński of Polan...