The Churchills: a family at the heart of history - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men and women - grandly...

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1. Verfasser: Lovell, Mary S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Little, Brown 2011
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Zusammenfassung:From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men and women - grandly ambitious, regularly impecunious, impulsive, arrogant and brave. And towering above the Churchill clan is the figure of Winston - his failures and his triumphs shown in a new and revealing context - ultimately the 'greatest Briton'
Beschreibung:Includes index
Bibliography: p. [593]-598
Beschreibung:xii, 624 p., [32] p. of plates ill., geneal. table, ports. 24 cm

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