The Churchills : a family portrait /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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).