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  • The Two Marshals: Bazaine & Pétain

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    A brilliant study of France and French military power through four generations. The careers of the two Marshalls span the years from Napoleon's downfall to Verdun and Vichy France."This biography of two soldiers of France is, in effect, a history of the French Army for a hundred years, as well as portraiture of marked differences and striking contrasts. There are strong touches of irony and ... Read more

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  • The Hundred Days [Illustrated Edition]

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Illustrated with 30 maps, portraits and diagrams of the Waterloo CampaignPhilip Guedalla was a British barrister, nut he was better known as a popular historical and biographical writer. His subjects were many and varied, but he had a noted inclination toward European subjects and particularly the history of France. For this volume he chose as his subject the "Hundred Days" — the return of the ... Read more

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  • Men of War

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    War has been pervasive throughout the history of mankind.But who were these men that fought and why did they fight?This collection of essays by Philip Guedalla examines those question all the way from soldiers of the Norman Conquest through to the Ironsides of the English Civil right up to those men who took to the ramparts and fought during the revolutions across Europe in 1848.Guedalla analyses ... Read more

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  • Palmerston

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    A figure described as “the last candle of the Eighteenth Century”, Lord Palmerston was the great statesman of his era.He served in the War Office in the days of Empire, then in the Foreign and Home Offices before ascending to Prime Minister very late in his life, an office which he held twice.A controversial figure still today, this is the biographical account of a man who shaped the future of the ... Read more

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  • The Duke

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was the outstanding soldier of his age.He joined the army and rose rapidly to command a Division in India.After great military and administrative success, he was knighted on his return to England in 1805, and in 1809 this ‘sepoy general’ took command of British, Spanish and Portuguese forces in the Iberian peninsula to fight the French.Over five ... Read more

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  • Wellington

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Castes mark their children deeply; and as a caste, the English gentry resident in Ireland were pronounced. Every conquest leaves a caste behind it, since conquerors are always apt to perpetuate their victory in superior social pretensions. Had not the Romans been the noblemen of Europe? Even a Norman raid became an aristocracy in England; and in Ireland the Anglo-Norman conquest left a similar ... Read more

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  • Wellington

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Castes mark their children deeply; and as a caste, the English gentry resident in Ireland were pronounced. Every conquest leaves a caste behind it, since conquerors are always apt to perpetuate their victory in superior social pretensions. Had not the Romans been the noblemen of Europe? Even a Norman raid became an aristocracy in England; and in Ireland the Anglo-Norman conquest left a similar ... Read more

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  • The Hundred Days

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    In the aftermath of his defeat to the Allies Napoleon had one last throw of the dice to regain power.Returning from his exile on Elba, Napoleon encourages French forces to fight with him once more as leader, and to discard their loyalty to the French king who had exiled him.The old Emperor marched to Paris and seized power within weeks, appointing his own men and looking for foreign excursions to ... Read more

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  • The Duke [Illustrated Edition]

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War."Philip Guedalla wrote "The Duke" in 1931, when the exploits of the First Duke of Wellington were still generally known to his audience....In a brisk but witty narrative, Guedalla retraces the life and long career of Arthur Wesley, later Duke of Wellington. Wesley's unpromising youth provides no ... Read more

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  • Mr Churchill

    by Philip Guedalla ...
    Churchill was perhaps the greatest British leader of the last hundred years.But how did the man become the Prime Minister who led his country through WWII.‘Mr Churchill’ is a brilliant portrait of a brilliant man, telling the life-story of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, O.M., C.H., from his early years up to his becoming Prime Minister in 1940.The red-headed, obstreperous youngster (whose ... Read more

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  • WINSTON CHURCHILL Ultimate Collection: Historical Books, Essays, Speeches & Letters (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Speeches, Memoirs, Essays & Histories of British Statesmanship

    by Winston Churchill, Linden Castermere ...
    WINSTON CHURCHILL Ultimate Collection: Historical Books, Essays, Speeches & Letters (Illustrated) gathers the many registers of Churchill's public and literary voice: historical narrative, political argument, parliamentary oratory, private reflection, and wartime exhortation. Read together, these works reveal a prose style at once Edwardian in cadence and modern in urgency—richly rhetorical, ... Read more

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  • Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1933

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Marlborough: His Life and Times
    The prime minister and Nobel Prize–winning historian begins his four-volume biography of the British statesman John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough.In the first volume of this ambitious and stunningly written biography, Sir Winston S. Churchill discusses the early career and stratospheric rise of his illustrious, seventeenth century ancestor. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, may have ... Read more

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