Most Popular Books by Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill is the author of Their Finest Hour (1948), My Early Life (2010), The World Crisis, Volume I (2020), The Grand Alliance (1986), The Second World War (2013).

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Their Finest Hour

Their Finest Hour
Covers the problems confronted by Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister, the Battle of France, the story of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the rebuilding of England''s Army.

My Early Life

release date: May 11, 2010
My Early Life
Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century: Winston Churchill. As a visionary, statesman, and historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. In this autobiography, Churchill recalls his childhood, his schooling, his years as a war correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War, and his first forays into politics as a member of Parliament. My Early Life not only gives readers insights into the shaping of a great leader but, as Churchill himself wrote, “a picture of a vanished age.” To fully understand Winston Churchill and his times, My Early Life is essential reading.

The World Crisis, Volume I

release date: Jan 15, 2020
The World Crisis, Volume I
Written with Churchill''s customary flair and his firsthand knowledge, The World Crisis series remains the greatest history of World War I. Volume I offers vivid accounts of early triumphs and disasters.

The Grand Alliance

release date: May 01, 1986
The Grand Alliance
Covers the German drive toward the East as the United States becomes involved in World War II.

The Second World War

release date: Dec 12, 2013
The Second World War
"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the twosupreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in thissecond struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty''sGovernment. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with moreauthority than was possible in my earlier books. I do not describe it as ahistory, for that belongs to another generation. But I claim with confidencethat it is a contribution to history which will be of service to the future." Sir Winston Churchill From the origins of the conflict, the rise of Hitler and thefutile attempts at appeasement, through the darkest days of Britain''s lonestand against the Axis powers, the great alliances with the USA and SovietRussia and the triumphs of D Day and the eventual liberation of Europe to theterrible birth of the Cold War under the shadow of nuclear weaponry, this isWinston Churchill''s landmark history of World War II. At once a personalaccount and a majesterial history, TheSecond World War remains Churchill''s literary masterpiece.

The River War

release date: Nov 13, 2022
The River War
The River War is a historical book by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Sudan. The River War tells a story of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan, and the Mahdi War between the British forces, led by Lord Kitchener, and the Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, "The Mahdi", heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the Ottomans.

The Hinge of Fate

release date: May 01, 1986
The Hinge of Fate
From uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success: a year when Rommel is gradually thrown back in North Africa, and in the Pacific the tide turns.

The Inside of the Cup — Complete

release date: Sep 04, 2022
The Inside of the Cup — Complete
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Inside of the Cup — Complete" by Winston Churchill. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Speaking for Themselves

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Speaking for Themselves
This a collection of the correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill from their courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill''s death in 1965. The letters serve both as a chronicle of their personal achievements and tragedies over the years and as a political and social history.

A Traveller in War-time

A Traveller in War-time
An American author describes his travels in Europe during World War I.

The Churchill War Papers

release date: Jan 01, 1993
The Churchill War Papers
The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill''s fascinating papers.

Marlborough

release date: Nov 01, 2002
Marlborough
"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes."—from the preface to Volume One John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose political intrigues were almost as legendary as his military skill, never fought a battle he didn''t win. Although he helped James II crush the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, Marlborough later supported William of Orange against James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and brilliantly managed England''s diplomatic triumphs during the War of the Spanish Succession. Marlborough also bequeathed the world another great British military strategist and diplomat—his descendant, Winston S. Churchill, who wrote this book to redeem Marlborough''s reputation from Macaulay''s smears. One million words long and ten years in the making, Churchill''s Marlborough stands as both a literary and historical masterpiece, giving us unique insights into the Churchill of World War II, for just as Churchill''s literary skill helps us understand the complexities of Marlborough''s life, so too did his writing of Marlborough help Churchill master the arts of military strategy and diplomacy. This two-volume edition includes the entire text and almost all the original maps.

Winston Churchill's Speeches

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Winston Churchill's Speeches
Winston Churchill ''mobilized the English language and sent it into battle''. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his age. When Britain stood alone and

The Complete Works of Winston Churchill

release date: Sep 28, 2020
The Complete Works of Winston Churchill
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was reared outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorns held my father''s rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear''s meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father''s best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman''s attire from pegs. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, over which I was wont to speculate. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers. My father was—how shall I say what he was? To this day I can only surmise many things of him. He was a Scotchman born, and I know now that he had a slight Scotch accent. At the time of which I write, my early childhood, he was a frontiersman and hunter. I can see him now, with his hunting shirt and leggings and moccasins; his powder horn, engraved with wondrous scenes; his bullet pouch and tomahawk and hunting knife. He was a tall, lean man with a strange, sad face. And he talked little save when he drank too many "horns," as they were called in that country. These lapses of my father''s were a perpetual source of wonder to me,—and, I must say, of delight. They occurred only when a passing traveller who hit his fancy chanced that way, or, what was almost as rare, a neighbor. Many a winter night I have lain awake under the skins, listening to a flow of language that held me spellbound, though I understood scarce a word of it.

Dr. Jonathan

release date: Sep 15, 2022
Dr. Jonathan
Dr. Jonathan is a play by Winston Churchill in which a New England mill owner tries to prevent his son from going to war, only for him to disobey his wishes and return with a case of shell shock. Excerpt: "This play was written during the war. But because several managers politely declined to produce it, it has not appeared on any stage. Now, perhaps, its theme is more timely, more likely to receive the attention it deserves, when the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared."

The Birth of Britain

release date: Nov 16, 2023
The Birth of Britain
The Birth of Britain covers the period of the history of Britain from Caesar''s invasions of Britain to the end of the feudal age. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. In addition to his careers of soldier and politician, Winston Churchill was a prolific writer. He started as a war journalist on Cuba and continued in British India, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill: Churchill and politics

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