Great Contemporaries.
by CHURCHILL, Winston S
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- Hardcover
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Synopsis
Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people written by Winston Churchill. The original collection of 21 essays published in 1937 were mainly written between 1928 and 1931. Four were added to the book in the 1939 edition, about Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170040
- Title
- Great Contemporaries.
- Author
- CHURCHILL, Winston S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1937
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