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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.
Aug 9, 2016 · Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw.
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Jan 3, 2024 · We have long wondered what in his 1935 article Churchill altered in Great Contemporaries. What did the Foreign Office persuade him to “soften”? We decided to find out—with a line-by-line digital comparison of the “The Truth About Hitler” and the Great Contemporaries chapter.
Jun 24, 2013 · Great contemporaries. by. Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Publication date. 1973. Topics. Biography. Publisher. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Item Size. 624.3M.
Jul 5, 2016 · Great Contemporaries. Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was...
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- Rosetta Books, 2016
- 079534967X, 9780795349676
Oct 17, 2008 · The central theme of Churchill’s collection is the group of British statesmen who dominated politics at the end of the last and beginning of this century: Balfour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith, Curzon.
Apr 5, 2013 · It is by far the most important, instructive edition of Churchill’s famous personality sketches ever published—masterfully edited with a new introduction by James W. Muller and authoritative footnotes by Muller, Erica Chenoweth and Paul Courtenay.
