#Winston churchhill books full

All have good strong red color on top page edges. All books are crisp and unowrn, vols 3,4,and 6 have owner names on endpapers. Here is a elected set with nice dustjackets. All books are first printings, in the uniform maroon sailcloth, with solid colour dustwrappers. This is the preferred and most collectible set. A complete set of 8 volumes of the British first editions in uniform bindings. All volumes now out of print and demand is climbing. Over 8600 pages, lots of photos, comprehensive indices. VII ROAD TO VICTORY 1941-1945, Vol VIII NEVER DESPAIR 1945-1965. A complete set of the 8 text volumes of the Official Biography. Heinemann, London, 1966-1988, 1st editions, hardcover.

#Winston churchhill books full

Churchill, The Official Biography full set of 8 volumes Conversely, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy.Churchill, R.S. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral. In declining health, Churchill resigned as prime minister in 1955, although he remained an MP until 1964. Domestically his government emphasised house-building and developed a nuclear weapon. Re-elected Prime Minister in 1951, his second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed Iranian coup. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an 'iron curtain' of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. His wartime leadership was widely praised, although acts like the Bombing of Dresden and response to the Bengal famine generated controversy. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort, resulting in victory in 1945. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat from Nazi Germany.

After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.

In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign after it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social security. Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns.

Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family. Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, ( 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer.