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_a941.082092 _bCAR |
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_aWarlord : Churchill at war, 1874-1945 / _cCarlo D'Este |
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_aLondon : _bAllen Lane, _c2008. |
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_axix, 936 p.: _bill., maps. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | _aThe Soldiers -- 'A Barren and Unhappy Period of My life' -- Sandhurst -- A Young Man on the Make: the 4th Queen's Own Hussars -- The jewel of Empire: India, 1896- 1897 -- A Taste of War: The North-West Frontier, 1897 -- Soldier of Fortune -- Omdurman -- David versus Goliath -- The Boer War -- The Great Escapade -- The Red Gdlam of War -- Lessons Learned -- Star Bright -- The Odd Couple -- Alarm Bells Throughout Europe -- First Lord of Admiralty -- Lighting the Bonfire -- Churchill's Private Army -- 'Damn the Dardanelles! They will be Our Grave' -- The Reckoning -- Penance -- 'In Flanders Fields' -- 'Winston's Folly' -- 'A Hopelessly Obsolete, Old-Fashioned Warrior' -- The Shame of Munich -- 'Bring back Churchill' -- 'Winston is Back' -- Warlord in Waiting -- The Norway Debacle -- The Loneliest Man in Britain -- 'Action This Day' -- Minister of Defence -- The Central War Room -- Disaster in Flanders Fields -- Deliverance -- 'Don't Give Way to Fear' -- 'What a Summer to Waste on War' -- 'Set Europe Ablaze' -- London Burning -- Wavell in the Hot Seat -- The President and the 'Former Naval Person' -- Mediterranean Misadventures -- Disaster in Crete --The Endless Desert War -- 'Colonel Shrapnel' Chickens Roosting in the East -- The Quest for Generalship -- Getting it Right -- Alamein: The Turning Point -- Ike -- Torch and Casablanca -- Down the Garden Path -- Amid the Ruins of Carthage -- The Strategic Air Campaign -- Stranding the Whale -- Overlord at Last -- Summer Discontent -- Victory | ||
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_aChurchill, Winston, 1874-1965 _xMilitary Leadership |
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_aSoldiers _zGreat Britain _xBiography |
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_aPrime Ministers _xGreat Britain _zBiography |
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