The Private Lives of Winston Churchill - Couverture rigide

Pearson, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0671631535 ISBN 13 : 9780671631536

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1991

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness. At the height of his power, he seemed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor, pride, and above all, tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply in the legacy of his birthright, the heritage of his family, and the awesome responsibility of being born Churchill.

In The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, John Pearson takes us behind the myth
of Churchill and deep into the psychology of a dynasty that some have called the most complicated Anglo-American family of this century. In doing so, he reveals, in rich portraits, some of the family's greatest, most charismatic, and most deeply troubled members and shows us the real, private Winston Churchill.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history.

He has worked on various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times, and the Sunday Times where for a time he wrote the Atticus column.

After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers, and is now at work on a full-scale biography of the Sitwells.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671631535
• ISBN 13: 9780671631536
• Reliure: Relié