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1	Churchill: A Biography more books like this by Roy Jenkins add to wishlist This political biography of Winston Churchill shows how he prepared himself over several decades for his role as leader and hope of the English people during World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| first editions
2	The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor more books like this by Penny Junor add to wishlist Presents a candid look at the members of the British royal family, focusing on the years following the death of Princess Diana to the present day. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders more books like this by Steven F Hayward add to wishlist A recognized authority on both Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill examines the remarkable parallels between these two leaders, who are examples of the timeless aspects of statesmanship and human greatness. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $7.24! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches more books like this by Winston J Churchill (Selected by) add to wishlist This one-volume collection of Winston Churchill's best speeches was edited by his grandson, Winston S. Churchill. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	British Politics: A Very Short Introduction more books like this by Anthony Wright add to wishlist Tony Wright's Very Short Introduction to British Politics is an interpretative essay on the British political system, rather than merely an abbreviated textbook on how it currently works. He identifies key characteristics and ideas of the British tradition, and investigates what makes British politics distinctive, while emphasizing throughout the ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.27! \| SVS
6	Old men forget. more books like this by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich add to wishlist see all copies from $12.19! signed copies \| first editions
7	Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life more books like this by Gretchen Rubin add to wishlist In this overview and study of Winston Churchill, Gretchen Rubin collects the sometimes contrasting views of Churchill's contemporaries and commentators in order to bring out the many facets of Britain's great, though complex, prime minister. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax more books like this by David Butler, Tony Travers, Andrew Adonis add to wishlist Reviled by the public and disowned by politicians, the poll tax was the most celebrated political disaster in post-war Britain. This book tells the full story of the poll tax. Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Lawson, Nicholas Ridely and virtually the entire cast of 1980s British politics feature as events unfold. Drawing on unique access to the often ... see all copies from $11.23!
9	Churchill more books like this by Keith Robbins add to wishlist This series provides critical studies of key political figures in world history since 1500. The books are not biographies, though inevitably they contain much biographical material; rather, they are interpretive essays, analyzing the major features of the career within the context of its own time. A great deal has been written about Churchill - ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $5.57! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lloyd George & Churchill: Rivals for Greatness more books like this by Richard Toye add to wishlist The two most significant British political figures of the twentieth-century, Churchill and Lloyd George were political rivals but personal friends. Between them, their ministerial careers spanned seventy years and two world wars. Although they could not have been more different temperamentally, and often disagreed violently about politics, theirs ... see all copies from $14.13! new only from $14.13! \| first editions
11	Restating the State more books like this by Tony Wright, DM (Editor), Andrew Gamble (Editor), T Wright T add to wishlist In his essay 'The end of laissez-faire', Keynes distinguished between the agenda and the non-agenda of government. This book asks how we interpret that distinction today. The book features a ground-breaking collection concerned with rethinking the contemporary role of the state; comprises essays written by leading scholars and politicians; looks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.65! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Prime Ministers and the Media: Issues of Power and Control more books like this by Colin Seymour-Ure add to wishlist Issues of power and control - the endless efforts of political leaders to be understood as they would like - lie at the core of this revealing new study. At a time when media saturate politics, how - and how successfully - can prime ministers manage their public communication? Sometimes they dominate media, like Tony Blair in the late 1990s; at ... see all copies from $17.48! new only from $31.55! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Transformation of British Politics 1860-1995 more books like this by Brian Harrison add to wishlist The British political system, though often criticised, has been the model and the inspiration for many national governments world-wide. Yet it is now at the centre of controversial debate within Britain itself. Over the 130 years since Bagehot wrote his English Constitution, no historian has investigated in depth how it has evolved in all its ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $44.93! \| SVS
14 view cover	Churchill more books like this by Samantha Heywood add to wishlist "Churchill" examines the influential career of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55. It discusses his early career as Secretary of State for War and Air and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill as Warlord, and Churchill in opposition and the 1951 government. The book examines a wide variety of ... see all copies from $8.79! new only from $22.25!
15	The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians, 1906-1939 more books like this by Harold MacMillan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom Since 1707 more books like this by Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan add to wishlist This is the first survey of Unionism, the ideology of most of the rulers of the United Kingdom for the last 300 years. Because it was taken so much for granted, it has never been properly studied. Now that we stand in the twilight of Unionism, it is possible to see it as it casts its long shadow over British and imperial history since 1707. The ... see all copies from $26.95! new only from $105.50! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Modern British State more books like this by Philip Harling add to wishlist This book is an unprecedented synthesis of the literature on state development that explains how and why the contours of the British state have changed over the last three centuries. Ranging in scope from the Glorious Revolution to New Labour, it provides a fluent and comprehensive introduction to the changing shape and role of the British state. ... see all copies from $27.73! new only from $27.73! \| SVS
18	Empire to Welfare State 2e more books like this by Trevor Owen Lloyd add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Churchill speaks : Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963 more books like this by Winston S. Churchill, Robert Rhodes James add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.55! \| first editions
20 view cover	Britannia's Burden: The Political Evolution of Modern Britain 1851-1990 more books like this by Bernard Porter add to wishlist The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence. But the ascendancy did not last, and a century and a half later Britain is forced to acknowledge her relative decline in many if not most spheres. Bernard Porter's history of the period traces the origins of most of the problems that confront the country today back precisely to ... see all copies from $16.45! new only from $50.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Trying to Please more books like this by John Julius Norwich add to wishlist see all copies from $15.25! new only from $34.48!
22 view cover	The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 more books like this by Martin J Pugh add to wishlist Since its first publication in 1982, The Making of Modern British Politics' has been widely acclaimed as the most sophisticated account of changes in British political history between the 1860s and the outbreak of the Second World War. For the third edition, the text has been extended to cover the politics of the Second World War and the election ... see all copies from $26.23! new only from $35.63! \| SVS
23 view cover	Winston Churchill more books like this by Leon Ashworth add to wishlist Telling the life story of Winston Churchill, this book is one of a series which is designed to introduce young readers to the lives of movers and shakers in British history. Using documentary evidence the text also introduces the lives of ordinary people who lived at the same time. see all copies from $5.99! new only from $26.00!
24 view cover	Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 more books like this by Paul Readman add to wishlist The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in Conservative, Liberal and Labour policymaking: in the context of concern about the faltering agricultural economy and the effects of large-scale rural-urban migration, land reforms were hotly debated in and out of parliament as never before. This book ... see all copies from $58.58! new only from $97.52! \| SVS
25 view cover	Scenes & Personalities in Angl more books like this by Israel Finestein add to wishlist This volume consists of articles by Israel Finestein written over a period of more than fifty years. He was throughout a close observer of the Jewish scene and latterly a prominent participant. These wide-ranging studies graphically present significant fe see all copies from $20.93! new only from $30.93! \| first editions

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