Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938
The moving conclusion to the acclaimed multivolume biography of one of Britain’s greatest military leaders by his Nobel Prize–winning descendant.
 
The final installment in Winston S. Churchill’s four-volume biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough—a famed military leader known for never having lost a military campaign. Despite his successes, Marlborough’s later years were full of struggle—including attacks from political and personal enemies.
 
Winston S. Churchill vividly recounts the intrigues and challenges of his ancestor’s extraordinarily eventful life. In this last volume, detailing the end of his career, Marlborough’s story is told with sensitivity and nuance—giving the reader an intimate glimpse into his state of mind. It’s a fascinating read for anyone interested in English history—and provides profound insights into leadership, loyalty, and personal conduct as valuable today as three centuries ago.
 
“A sustained meditation on statecraft and war by the greatest war leader of our time.” —Foreign Affairs
 
“The greatest historical work written in our century, an inexhaustible mine of political wisdom and understanding, which should be required reading for every student of political science.” —Leo Strauss
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938
The moving conclusion to the acclaimed multivolume biography of one of Britain’s greatest military leaders by his Nobel Prize–winning descendant.
 
The final installment in Winston S. Churchill’s four-volume biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough—a famed military leader known for never having lost a military campaign. Despite his successes, Marlborough’s later years were full of struggle—including attacks from political and personal enemies.
 
Winston S. Churchill vividly recounts the intrigues and challenges of his ancestor’s extraordinarily eventful life. In this last volume, detailing the end of his career, Marlborough’s story is told with sensitivity and nuance—giving the reader an intimate glimpse into his state of mind. It’s a fascinating read for anyone interested in English history—and provides profound insights into leadership, loyalty, and personal conduct as valuable today as three centuries ago.
 
“A sustained meditation on statecraft and war by the greatest war leader of our time.” —Foreign Affairs
 
“The greatest historical work written in our century, an inexhaustible mine of political wisdom and understanding, which should be required reading for every student of political science.” —Leo Strauss
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938

Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938

by Winston S. Churchill
Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938

Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1938

by Winston S. Churchill

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The moving conclusion to the acclaimed multivolume biography of one of Britain’s greatest military leaders by his Nobel Prize–winning descendant.
 
The final installment in Winston S. Churchill’s four-volume biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough—a famed military leader known for never having lost a military campaign. Despite his successes, Marlborough’s later years were full of struggle—including attacks from political and personal enemies.
 
Winston S. Churchill vividly recounts the intrigues and challenges of his ancestor’s extraordinarily eventful life. In this last volume, detailing the end of his career, Marlborough’s story is told with sensitivity and nuance—giving the reader an intimate glimpse into his state of mind. It’s a fascinating read for anyone interested in English history—and provides profound insights into leadership, loyalty, and personal conduct as valuable today as three centuries ago.
 
“A sustained meditation on statecraft and war by the greatest war leader of our time.” —Foreign Affairs
 
“The greatest historical work written in our century, an inexhaustible mine of political wisdom and understanding, which should be required reading for every student of political science.” —Leo Strauss

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780795331602
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Publication date: 09/01/2018
Series: Marlborough: His Life and Times , #4
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 554
Sales rank: 511,473
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

Sir Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”

Over a sixty-four-year span, Churchill published over forty books, many multi-volume definitive accounts of historical events to which he was a witness and participant. All are beautifully written and as accessible and relevant today as when first published.

During his fifty-year political career, Churchill served twice as Prime Minister in addition to other prominent positions—including President of the Board of Trade, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Home Secretary. In the 1930s, Churchill was one of the first to recognize the danger of the rising Nazi power in Germany and to campaign for rearmament in Britain. His leadership and inspired broadcasts and speeches during World War II helped strengthen British resistance to Adolf Hitler—and played an important part in the Allies’ eventual triumph.

One of the most inspiring wartime leaders of modern history, Churchill was also an orator, a historian, a journalist, and an artist. All of these aspects of Churchill are fully represented in this collection of his works.

Table of Contents

Preface
I. ASHE HOUSE
II. THE JOVIAL TIMES
III. BARBARA
IV. THE EUROPE OF CHARLES II
V. ARMS
VI. THE DANBY ADMINISTRATION
VII. SARAH
VIII. MARRIAGE
IX. MASTER AND SERVANT
X. THE UNSEEN RIFT
XI. THE PRINCESS ANNE
XII. SEDGEMOOR
XIII. THE ROYAL PLOT
XIV. THE NATIONAL COUNTER-PLOT
XV. DRAGONNADE
XVI. THE PROTESTANT WIND
XVII. THE INVASION
XVIII. THE REVOLUTION
XIX. MARLBOROUGH AND WILLIAM
XX. THE PERSONAL CLEAVAGE
XXI. KING JAMES'S MEMOIRS
XXII. THE JACOBITE ILLUSION
XXIII. THE FAMILY QUARREL
XXIV. THE TOWER
XXV. THE CAMARET BAY LETTER
XXVI. CAMARET BAY
XXVII. THE FENWICK TRIAL
XXVIII. AVARICE AND CHARM
XXIX. PEACE AND RECONCILITATION
XXX. MARLBOROUGH IN POLITICS
XXXI. THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
XXXII. THE GRAND ALLIANCE

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