The Churchills : a family portrait /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Celia
Other Authors: Lee, John, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Love at first sight (1873 - 1876)
  • An Irish "exile" (1876-1880)
  • A political star is born (1880-1882)
  • A shooting star burns out (1882 -1886)
  • A happy family again? (1887-1889)
  • Looking for gold and family matters (1890-1893)
  • Settling the boys' future (1893-1894)
  • The last journey (1894-1895)
  • A royal affair : Jennie and the Prince of Wales (1895-1898)
  • Financial worries and career development (1895-1897)
  • Financial crisis and a career denied (1898-1899)
  • Jennie's work on the Anglo-Saxon Review and the hospital ship the Maine during the Boer War (1898-1902)
  • Brothers in arms : war in South Africa (1899-1900)
  • Getting on (1900-1906)
  • Two brides for two brothers (1907-1908)
  • Liberal Britain (1909-1914)
  • A world at war : from the Western Front to Gallipoli (1914-1915)
  • Seeing it through (1914-1918)
  • Postwar Britain (1919-1929)
  • From the 'political wilderness to Downing Street (1929-1940)
  • Their finest hour (1940-1945)
  • The end of it all (1945-1965).