Great Contemporaries
by Churchill, Winston
Published by : Thornton Butterworth Ltd. (London) Physical details: 334 Pages 14x22 cm | HB Year: 1937| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction | Non-fiction | 920.02 C559G 1937 (Browse shelf) | Available | 1044 |
It is a biography of Sir Winston Churchill.
"Great Contemporaries" was published in 1937 and contained 21 essays about major figures, such as Trotsky, Hitler and Lawrence of Arabia. It was re-published in 1958 with four new articles on Fisher, Parnell, Baden-Powell and Roosevelt, which are included in this edition.
A collection of essays about twenty-one men whom Churchill felt contributed to the course of the world in which he lived.
GREAT CONTEMPORARIES is a collection of essays about 21 men whom Winston S. Churchill felt contributed to the course of the world in which he lived. The central theme is a group of British statesmen who shone in the late 1800s and early in this century--Blafour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith and Curzon.
Others whose acquaintance we make through Churchill's eyes include George Bernard Shaw, Hindenburg, Lawrence of Arabia, Marshall Foch, Leon Trotsky, Phillip Snowden, Clemenceaus and King George V.
Churchill's long acquaintance with world leaders gave him a unique perspective from which to view actors on the international stage. His assessments sparkle, as do his own qualities, which glow warmly out from these portraits."
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