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Author Lee, Celia.

Title The Churchills : a family portrait / Celia Lee and John Lee.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  941.084 Lee    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Love at first sight (1873 - 1876) -- An Irish "exile" (1876-1880) -- A political star is born (1880-1882) -- A shooting star burns out (1882 -1886) -- A happy family again? (1887-1889) -- Looking for gold and family matters (1890-1893) -- Settling the boys' future (1893-1894) -- The last journey (1894-1895) -- A royal affair : Jennie and the Prince of Wales (1895-1898) -- Financial worries and career development (1895-1897) -- Financial crisis and a career denied (1898-1899) -- Jennie's work on the Anglo-Saxon Review and the hospital ship the Maine during the Boer War (1898-1902) -- Brothers in arms : war in South Africa (1899-1900) -- Getting on (1900-1906) -- Two brides for two brothers (1907-1908) -- Liberal Britain (1909-1914) -- A world at war : from the Western Front to Gallipoli (1914-1915) -- Seeing it through (1914-1918) -- Postwar Britain (1919-1929) -- From the 'political wilderness to Downing Street (1929-1940) -- Their finest hour (1940-1945) -- The end of it all (1945-1965).
Source NBK 3/10 PPL
Subject Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Family.
Churchill, John Strange Spencer, 1880-1947 -- Family.
Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, 1849-1895 -- Family.
Churchill, Randolph Spencer, Lady, 1854-1921 -- Family.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
Added Author Lee, John, 1946-
ISBN 9780230618107
0230618103

 
    
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