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Free Download The Right Honourable John N. Turner, "Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1459705890, 1459724275 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 1.4 mb
The story of the complex relationship between two world leaders during one of the greatest crises in human history.

Free Download Brothers in Arms: Churchill’s Special Forces During WWII’s Darkest Hour by Damien Lewis
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 0806542675 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 1.01 MB
From a critically acclaimed and #1 internationally bestselling author, the most riveting WWII story of Churchill’s legendary SAS, the special forces unit of the British Army, chronicling one close-knit band of warriors from the SAS foundation through to the Italian landings-which truly turned the tide of war.

Free Download Brian Lavery – Churchill’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1939-1945
Conway | 2006 | ISBN: 1844860353 | English | 291 pages | PDF | 250.9 MB
The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs. Typically books tend to concentrate on the battle history of the navy, and of course this book also examines this topic from convoys to amphibious war, from submarine operations to the last gunnery battles in the Atlantic. But it also looks at the ships themselves, recruitment, and the life and career paths of the officers that commanded and the men and women who served, the technical developments that influenced operations and tactics. It details the composition of the surface and submarine navy from the smallest torpedo boat to the massive battleships and aircraft carriers. This work will provide the most comprehensive assessment of all aspects of Churchill’s Navy.

Free Download Martin Gilbert – Churchill at War: His "Finest Hour" in Photographs 1940-1945
W. W. Norton & Company | 2004 | ISBN: 0393058786 | English | 167 pages | PDF | 97.08 MB
Churchill at War combines official Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert’s authoritative text with almost 200 photographs from the remarkable archive of London’s Imperial War Museum to create an unprecedented portrait of Churchill throughout World War II. Whether deep in conversation with world leaders, sharing a joke with dock workers, inspecting bomb-damaged cities, rallying his troops in the theaters of war, picnicking with his generals on the banks of the Rhine, visiting the ruins of Berlin, or celebrating the victory over Germany, Churchill’s charisma, strength of character, sense of humor, sensitivity, and love for his country shine out from these images. Churchill at War is an insightful glimpse into the wartime life of the man whose friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt led to the closest-ever Anglo-American relationship, and whose tireless commitment to defeating Nazism was to prove an inspiration for millions over the decades both at home and abroad. 196 b/w photographs.

Free Download Jonathan Schneer, "Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet"
English | 2015 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0465027911, 1780748329 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler. But Churchill – regarded as the savior of his nation, and of the entire continent – could not have done it alone.

Free Download Churchill’s Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by William Smith
English | September 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1399072293 | 272 pages | PDF | 3.97 Mb
The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain’s new ally.

Free Download How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood
English | August 29, 2019 | ISBN: 1526771098 | 315 pages | PDF | 3.38 Mb
When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman’s role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going to get his hands dirty and take direct personal control of the day to day running of military policy. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain’s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested.

Free Download Churchill’s German Special Forces: The Elite Refugee Troops Who Took the War to Hitler (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C8W5P67K | 2023 | 5 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Paul Moorcraft
Narrator: Mike Cooper
The existence of German-speaking units fighting for the Allied cause during WW2 has remained largely a well-kept secret. But seventy-five years on these units’ contribution to victory needs to be fully acknowledged. Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no qualms about using native German speakers from Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany itself. The majority were Jews who had fled persecution. Two examples of these secret units were X Troop Commandos and the Special Interrogation Group. The SIG men deserve their legendary status. They fought, and often died, wearing Wehmacht uniform.

Free Download Sian Adiseshiah, "Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill"
English | ISBN: 1443813184 | 2009 | 260 pages | PDF | 1305 KB
Although now celebrated as a world-leading playwright, Caryl Churchill has received little attention for her socialism, which has been frequently overlooked in favour of emphasising gendered identities and postmodernist themes. "Churchill’s Socialism" examines eight of Churchill’s plays with reference to socialist theories and political movements. This well-researched and dynamic new book reframes Churchill’s work, positioning her plays within socialist discourses, and producing persuasive political readings of her drama that reflect much more of the political challenge that the plays pose. It additionally explores her uneasy relationship with postmodernism, which presents itself particularly in Churchill’s later plays. The book contains a very helpful chapter on socialist contexts, which outlines some of the key events, debates, and movements during the late 1960s up until the early 2000s. This chapter also offers an incisive critique of the easy acceptance by some socialists of a postmodernist rejection of grand narratives and political agency. An in depth examination of the rarely explored interconnections of utopianism and theatre, forms another chapter, where all eight of Churchill’s plays, ‘Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’, ‘Vinegar Tom’, ‘Top Girls’, ‘Fen’, ‘Serious Money’, ‘Mad Forest’, ‘The Skriker’, and ‘Far Away’, are introduced. The plays are then discussed in pairs in a further four chapters with reference to communist historiography, the class/gender intersection, the end-of-history thesis, ecocritical challenges and postmodernism.

Free Download Vincent Delmas, "Churchill: A Graphic Biography"
English | 2020 | pages: 120 | ISBN: 1784385123 | EPUB | 23,9 mb