The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit

The Churchill Complex

The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit

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Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma

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1,729 books

Ready

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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86 books

Churchills

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To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
Winston Churchill's War Leadership
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
Churchill
Winston's War

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332 books

United Kingdom

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The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow In 1911
Nella Last's War
Black diamonds
A measureless peril
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

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1,113 books

Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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153 books

United States

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Pierke
Destiny of the Republic
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
The imperial cruise
The Monuments Men
The Candy Bombers
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
A measureless peril

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56 books

Roosevelts

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The imperial cruise
To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941
Pearl Harbor Christmas
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941