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Chasing Churchill : The Travels of Winston Churchill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Luton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Ltd., 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781910065297
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chasing ChurchillDDC classification:
  • 941.082092
LOC classification:
  • DA566.9.C5 -- .S263 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Winston Churchill: A Chronology of Milestones and Travels -- Foreword -- Body matter -- Prologue: The Gifts of Travel -- 1 The Christina -- 2 A New World -- 3 Warrior and Writer -- 4 Jungle, Bush and Thankless Deserts -- 5 Coast to Coast -- 6 The Paris of the Sahara -- 7 Wartime Journeys 1914-18 and 1939-43 -- 8 Wartime Journeys 1943-45 -- 9 Fulton and Beyond -- 10 Madeira: Warm, Paintable, Bathable -- 11 The Old World -- Epilogue: Last Journeys -- Back matter -- Acknowledgements -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Also available.
Summary: Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA - amongst others - and recounts how Sir Winston's trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as 'our Greatest Briton'.
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Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Winston Churchill: A Chronology of Milestones and Travels -- Foreword -- Body matter -- Prologue: The Gifts of Travel -- 1 The Christina -- 2 A New World -- 3 Warrior and Writer -- 4 Jungle, Bush and Thankless Deserts -- 5 Coast to Coast -- 6 The Paris of the Sahara -- 7 Wartime Journeys 1914-18 and 1939-43 -- 8 Wartime Journeys 1943-45 -- 9 Fulton and Beyond -- 10 Madeira: Warm, Paintable, Bathable -- 11 The Old World -- Epilogue: Last Journeys -- Back matter -- Acknowledgements -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Also available.

Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA - amongst others - and recounts how Sir Winston's trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as 'our Greatest Briton'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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