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Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.
Great Contemporaries (Les/Mes Grands Contemporains) est une collection d'essais biographiques courts sur des personnages célèbres écrite par Winston Churchill.
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. [1] Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is one of the three major subsets of modern history, alongside the early modern period and ...
Great Contemporaries. Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel...
18 de may. de 2023 · Early Morley. “Men of the Day: John Morley,” by “Spy” in Vanity Fair, 30 November 1878. (Public domain) John Morley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of a doctor who wanted him to become a clergyman. Disenchanted with the “High Church” and quarreling with his father, he left Oxford without an honors degree and pursued Law.
18 de jun. de 2020 · Field Marshal Alexander, circa 1945. (Library and Archives Canada, public domain) Harold R.L.G. Alexander, First Earl Alexander of Tunis, was with little doubt Churchill’s favorite Second World War general. Alexander possessed qualities Churchill highly admired, and thought ideal in a leader. Possessed of personal bravery, he was handsome ...
Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling...
