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Churchill by Roy Jenkins
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his l ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Pape ...Show more
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins
29.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A final masterly work by the biographer of his generation and bestselling author of Churchill.A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predece ...Show more
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A final masterly work by the biographer of his generation and bestselling author of Churchill.A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predece ...Show more
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins (Chancellor, Oxford University and President, Royal Society of Literature)
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Originally published in 1995, this is a biography of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), which charts the political career and personal life of the only person who saw four terms as the British Prime Minister and who left behind a long and successful line of legislation. Roy Jenkins examines the manifo ...Show more
Twelve Cities : A Memoir by Roy Jenkins
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Roy Jenkins follows up Churchill with a book of a very different shape; short and semi-autobiographical, but also full of the wit and erudition which made that book such a success. Each of the twelve cities are described with a mixture of architectural interest, topographical insight, and personal anecd ...Show more
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