Thoughts and Adventures.
Churchill, Winston S.
Thoughts and Adventures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (298 pages) - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works ; v.2 . - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works .
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Editor's Note on This Edition -- Preface -- A Second Choice -- Cartoons and Cartoonists -- Consistency in Politics -- Personal Contacts -- The Battle of Sidney Street -- The German Splendour -- My Spy Story -- With the Grenadiers -- 'Plugstreet' -- The U-Boat War -- The Dover Barrage -- Ludendorff's 'All-or Nothing' -- A Day with Clemenceau -- In the Air -- Election Memories -- The Irish Treaty -- Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem -- Shall We All Commit Suicide? -- Mass Effects in Modern Life -- Fifty Years Hence -- Moses -- Hobbies -- Painting as a Pastime -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
More than any other book by Winston Churchill, the wide-ranging THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES allows the contemporary reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's mature thoughts on the questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man.
9780795349652
Great Britain-Politics and government-1901-1936.
Electronic books.
DA566.9.C5 .C487 2009
Thoughts and Adventures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (298 pages) - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works ; v.2 . - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works .
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Editor's Note on This Edition -- Preface -- A Second Choice -- Cartoons and Cartoonists -- Consistency in Politics -- Personal Contacts -- The Battle of Sidney Street -- The German Splendour -- My Spy Story -- With the Grenadiers -- 'Plugstreet' -- The U-Boat War -- The Dover Barrage -- Ludendorff's 'All-or Nothing' -- A Day with Clemenceau -- In the Air -- Election Memories -- The Irish Treaty -- Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem -- Shall We All Commit Suicide? -- Mass Effects in Modern Life -- Fifty Years Hence -- Moses -- Hobbies -- Painting as a Pastime -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
More than any other book by Winston Churchill, the wide-ranging THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES allows the contemporary reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's mature thoughts on the questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man.
9780795349652
Great Britain-Politics and government-1901-1936.
Electronic books.
DA566.9.C5 .C487 2009