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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat	John Lukacs	On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe; Neville Chamberlain’s government had …	OL155629W
Churchill	John Lukacs	"John Lukacs has spent a lifetime considering the complex personality and statesmanship of Winston Churchill. In previous books Lukacs told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler…	OL155630W
Attlee	Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds	Clement Attlee -- the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India -- has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century Prime…	OL15692274W
A journey	Tony Blair	Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and r…	OL16565704W
Chequers	Plantagenet Somerset Fry	xii, 72 pages : 20 x 21 cm	OL1686434W
The Prime Minister and Cabinet	Stephen Buckley	Providing an introduction to the workings of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, this book is written in light of major developments such as the war with Iraq, the Hutton Inquiry, the Butler report, the …	OL16977298W
Who Was Winston Churchill?	Ellen Labrecque	Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch oppo…	OL17342644W
Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography	Charles Moore	In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volum…	OL17575355W
Margaret Thatcher	Margaret Thatcher	Esta autobiografía de Margaret Thatacher, única en su género por su veracidad, contundencia y amplia perspectiva histórica, expone además las convicciones de una firme mujer de gobierno, sus creencia…	OL19975646W
Citizen Clem	John Bew	xxxii, 670 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm	OL21600178W
Gladstone	Roy Jenkins	In this award-winning biography, Roy Jenkins brings Gladstone and his century vibrantly to life. Born in Liverpool in 1809, Gladstone lived until 1898, spending 63 of his 89 years in the House of Com…	OL2619660W
Churchill and the admirals	Stephen Wentworth Roskill	Includes material on the period 1911-1939.	OL2628531W
Lloyd George	Peter Rowland	xix, 872 p., leaf of plate, [14] p. of plates : 24 cm	OL2946413W
The Duke of Portland	Wilkinson, David.	"David Wilkinson's analysis carefully dismantles many popular misconceptions about political life in this period, and breaks new ground in examining Portland's later career. After a protracted period…	OL3388379W
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher	Nicholas Wapshott	An insightful character study of the most important Anglo-American friendship since FDR and ChurchillIt's well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political s…	OL3945503W
Gladstone	Partridge, Michael.	Gladstone is one of the most important political figures in modern British history. He held the office of Prime Minister four times during a turbulent and changing time in Britain's history.Michael P…	OL3955324W
The Path To Power	Robert A. Caro	Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign.	OL4195862W
Margaret Thatcher	Connolly, Sean	Profiles the former British prime minister, with information on her childhood, family life, career, and the legacy of her administration.	OL443532W
Benjamin Disraeli	Adam Kirsch	A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, …	OL5722056W
Churchill	Martin Gilbert	The definitive biography of Winston Churchill.This edition of the highly acclaimed one-volume CHURCHILL: A LIFE, is the story of adventure. It follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his …	OL582160W