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Martin Gilbert

Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939

The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939

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This fascinating volume opens with Churchill's return to Conservatism and to the Cabinet in 1924, and, as the story unfolds, presents a vivid and intimate picture both of his public life and of his private world at Chartwell between the wars.As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929, Churchill pursued a humane and constructive social policy, including the introduction of pensions for widows and orphans. The controversial return to the gold standard is examined here on the basis of new evidence; so too are Churchill's efforts after the General Strike to bring peace to the coal industry. In 1927 Churchill planned and fought for a massive… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7953-4460-2
  • EAN: 9780795344602
  • Produktnummer: 18896664
  • Verlag: RosettaBooks
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 1197 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Reihenbandnummer: 5

Über den Autor


SIR MARTIN GILBERT was born in England in 1936. He was a graduate of Oxford University, from which he held a Doctorate of Letters, and was an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchill's research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill's death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill. He published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and edited twelve volumes of Churchill documents.During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin published eighty books, including The First World War, The Second World War, and a three-volume History of the Twentieth Century. He also wrote, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlas of the First World War, and, most recently, Atlas of the Second World War.Sir Martin's film and television work included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill. His other published works include Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, and the single volume Churchill, A Life.

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