U.K. Prime Ministers

Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a gr... More

A recognized authority on both Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill examines the remarkable parallels between these two leaders, who are examples of the timeless aspects of statesmanship and human greatness.The Unexplored Connections Between Two of History's Greatest Leaders Ronald Reagan and Winston... More

Gandhi, an inspiration and a despair to all who approached him, has been subjected to MORE analysis than any other person in contemporary history. And yet something is missing in the puzzle that Gandhi was and is. This volume is one more attempt to understand and to explain him by laying a little mo... More

This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the first millennium BC. It covers Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around ... More

"Gladstone and Disraeli "surveys the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how they became the leaders of different parties and goes on to consider their premierships, analysing many different aspects of the two men. Using a wide variety of sources and historiogra... More

In this fresh account of Benjamin Disraeli's life, Paul Smith looks at his unique character as a fusion of Jewishness and Anglicanism, outsider and insider, nationalist and European, Romantic and Tory; and shows how this formed his "appeal as an original and a card, the most piquant joker in the pac... More

Examining the influential career of Winston Churchill, this new book discusses his career from Secretary of State for War and Air, to British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55.Examining the influential career of Winston Churchill, this new book discusses his career from Secr... More

An anecdotal history of Winston Churchill’s foreign journeys – for journalistic, political or holiday purposes, and in war and peace – as told by his granddaughter Celia Sandys, who travels in his footsteps. With all his other remarkable achievements, it is easy to overlook the fact that thr... More

An award-winning British author provides a comprehensive portrait of Winston Churchill from his childhood to the critical World War II period and beyond in this single, definitive volume.In Churchill, Roy Jenkins provides a comprehensive portrait of Winston Churchill from his childhood to the critic... More

How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership... More

Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest orator of his day, the greatest statesman of his age, and the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. This enchanting collection gathers hundreds of his funniest and wickedest quips in tribute to the exhilarating wit of this great-hearted, infuriatingly concei... More

A "WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICKA "WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for lead... More

The most celebrated Prime Minister of the twentieth century and arguably the most renowned British Prime Minister ever, Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. But, though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, without World War II he might have been remembere... More

This biography, the first to be based on the full range of Lord Lloyd's papers, reveals a divided man who devoted his life to the British Empire dispite his own restless spirit. Its description of Lloyd's struggle to preserve the empire offers a tantalizing glimpse of an alternative view of early tw... More

Benjamin Disraeli remains a commanding figure in the history and ideology of the British Conservative party, and a remarkable example of ascent to high office from outside the traditional elite. This is the first book to bring together specialists in history, literary studies and psychiatry to offer... More