Churchill and America, Martin Gilbert

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Churchill and America, Martin Gilbert

Statement of responsibility

Martin Gilbert

Instantiates

• Churchill and America

Publication

• New York, Free Press, 2005

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-475) and index

Contents

From Blenheim Palace to Buffalo Bill -- The "tall Yankee" and "a great lusty youth" -- Cuba and beyond -- "How little time remains!" -- Lecturer in the United States: "The stormy ocean of American thought and discussion -- "Dark would be the day" -- Churchill at war, and a neutral America -- "The future destiny of the English-speaking peoples" -- "Come over as quickly as possible" -- "America did not make good" -- "We do not wish to put ourselves in the power of the United States" -- "United to us by the crimson thread of friendship" -- Between two visits -- "There's no baloney about him at all" -- "Why do our two countries not take counsel together?" -- "A union of spirit" -- Road to war -- "Hope burden will not be made too heavy for us to bear" -- "I shall drag the United States in" -- "Until the old world-and the new-can join hands" -- "We are no longer alone" -- Five months of anguish -- "A means of waging more effective war" -- "American blood flowed in my veins" -- The Washington War Conference: "All in it together" -- "Okay full blast" -- "The tact and consideration which the harmony of the common cause requires" -- "If we are together nothing is impossible" -- Toward overlord: "Our band of brothers" -- From Normandy to Quebec -- "It grieves me very much to see signs of our drifting apart" -- Malta, Yalta and beyond -- "We must make sure that the United States are with us" -- "Britain, though a smaller power than the United States, had much to give" -- Fulton and its aftermath -- "I have always worked for friendship with the United States" -- The indefatigable traveler -- "I marvel at America's altruism, her sublime disinterestedness" -- "We must not cast away a single hope, however slender" -- "Never be separated from the Americans" -- Final decade: "I delight in my American ancestry."

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ocm60500476

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xxiv, 501 p.

Isbn

9780743275545

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(hbk.)

Lccn

2005049412

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9780743259927

Other physical details

ill., maps

Record ID

u377680