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11 de may. de 2012 · Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age. Paperback – May 11, 2012. Churchill Sizes Up the Giants of His Age, Offers Wisdom for Our Own. Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical ...
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10 de mar. de 2022 · Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.
Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the ...
Churchill's keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into these subjects as Churchill approaches them with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits. Read More. Excellent. 2,227 reviews on.
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1938. First revised and expanded edition. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the first revised and expanded edition of Churchill’s much-praised collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day. This edition, published in 1938 soon after the first edition of 1937, added four new essays Fisher, Parnell, Baden-Powell, and - of great ...
Great Contemporaries by Churchill, Winston S. Topics Allama Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015. ...
12 de sept. de 2023 · 本书是丘吉尔唯一一部人物评论集， 写于两次世界大战之交的1937年。. 在这个动荡的大时代，丘吉尔见证了第一次世界大战、俄国革命、希特勒的崛起、西班牙革命、爱尔兰自治运动和世界经济大萧条。. 他回忆了德皇威廉二世、兴登堡、阿拉伯的劳伦斯、福煦 ...
