Best Selling Books by Winston Churchill

This stunning second volume of wartime speeches and broadcasts from the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister captures the troubled early days of WWII. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items, and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but uneasy with its shifting role on the world stage. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.” During his lifetime, he enthralled readers and brought crowds roaring to their feet; in the years since his death, his skilled writing has inspired generations of eager history buffs. This second volume in the series of the great orator’s wartime speeches, broadcasts, public messages, and other communications take readers through the difficult years of 1940 to 1941. Faced with a challenging moment for the military as well as a groundswell of criticism from his government and his people, Churchill used his extraordinary command of language to inspire Britain to stand strong against Hitler and the growing Nazi threat. No fan of WWII military history should be without this extraordinary collection of seventy-two broadcasts, speeches, and messages to Parliament.

A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that nation for victory against the might of the Fascist powers. Never Give In! celebrates this oratory by gathering together Churchill''s most powerful speeches from throughout his public career. Carefully selected by his grandson, this collection includes all his best known speeches - from his great war-time broadcasts to the "Iron Curtain" speech that heralded the start of the Cold War - and many lesser known but inspirational pieces. In a single volume Never Give In! provides a powerful testimony to one of the great public figures of the 20th century.

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.

Churchill recounts the operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899, offering valuable insights into a historic clash of Western and Arabic cultures.

Winston Churchill''s six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of 1941 surrounding America''s entry into the War and Hitler''s march on Russia - the continuing onslaught on British civilians during the Blitz, Japan''s attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance between Britain and America that shaped the outcome of the War.

Originally published: London: Cassell, 1956.

A chronicle of the period from January 1942 through May 1943 during which the fortunes of the Allies turned from disaster to success

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"Churchill was alive to his task with every nerve and fibre, and this aliveness survives and animates The World Crisis, making it the extraordinarily fascinating book that it is". So proclaimed the New York Herald Tribune when Sir Winston Churchill''s four-volume The World Crisis was published more than sixty years ago. As First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister for War and Air, Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs, and now Scribners proudly welcomes back into print the one-volume Abridgment of his classic account of World War I. The World Crisis dramatically details the strategies forged by the generals, how the tides of despair and triumph flowed and ebbed as these men carefully navigated the dangerous currents of world conflict. Churchill vividly recounts the major campaigns that shaped the war: the furious attacks of the Marne, the naval maneuvers off Jutland, Verdun''s "soul-stirring frenzy", and the surprising victory of Chemins des Dames. Here, too, he re-creates the dawn of modern warfare: the buzz of airplanes overhead, trench combat, artillery thunder, and the threat of chemical warfare. In Churchill''s inimitable voice we hear how "the war to end all wars" instead gave birth to every war that would follow. Written with unprecedented flair and knowledge of the events, The World Crisis remains the single greatest history of World War I, essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand our century.

Churchill''s great wartime speeches are brought together along with a sampling of earlier speeches and a few from his later years.

This intriguing work is set in a fictional European country, Laurania, where a revolution led by Savrola takes place against a dictator. It is an absorbing tale of conspiracy and daring adventures. The politics and institutions of Laurania reflect the values of England as the writer Winston Churchill experienced them.

These reflective, philosophical letters between British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower provide insights into the relationship between the two statesmen and their countries as well as their hopes and fears about the postwar world.