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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Winston Churchill"”.
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The Role of Winston Churchill in the First World War
… qualities of vigor, ability and foresight that Churchill showed to such a statesmanlike degree in the last war, also the special technical training in ships, tanks, planes and their use that he gained. I have endeavored to point out in what ways these have qualified him for his role as Prime …
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The wars of peoples : science, democracy, and international politics in the thought of Winston Churchill.
This dissertation investigates Churchill's understanding of international relations, primarily by reading and analyzing several of his war histories. The first chapter explains Churchill's historical philosophy, and reviews much of the secondary literature across the project as a whole. The second …
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The Destroyer Deal
… British Foreign Secretary—were employed by Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940, speaking to the British Parliament. The occasion was the frenzied evacuation of the allied troops at Dunkerque, completed on the previous day. The fortunes of England—long mistress of the seas and guarantor of the …
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The City of Aetheria
Winston Churchill said "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." And this holds true for our cities as well. The intent of this thesis is to develop an understanding of the origins of the city, historic theories of planning, Utopian proposals, the current state of the city, and what the …
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Words of War: Their Speeches and Correspondence, November 1940-March 1941.
<p>Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt inspired the Allies with memorable speeches in their fight against the Axis Powers during World War II.</p><p>These speeches resulted from their personalities, preparation, and correspondence; and the speeches directed Allied …
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Perceptions and Realities of the Irish Republican Army During the Second World War
… Eamon de Valera and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and those ministers' respective governments. The thesis looks at official debates in the British Parliament and the Irish Dail as well as interwar newspapers and official records. Additionally, the thesis consults the Abwehr II War …
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Religious experience of the destined human being
… Rembrandt van Rijn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and, as an exception to some things which have been said, Pablo Picasso. It is hoped that this research demonstrates that these people understand humanity and its needs for religion, and that their experiences and …
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Theodore Roosevelt and Wilhelm II: Personal Relationships
… personified by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, has been a factor in international politics for a half century. This friendship has even survived the cogent criticism that London wields disproportionate influence on American foreign policy in an era which has witnessed the …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… leaders as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt when we think about the brutal events and the outcome of the World War II. Or, for example, the Cuban Missile Crisis and its peaceful solution went down in history highlighting roles of John F. Kennedy …
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Beset By Secrecy And Beleaguered By Rivals: The Special Operations Executive and Military Operations In Western Europe 1940-1942 With Special Reference to Operation Frankton
… Britain's clandestine secret service created by Winston Churchill in 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze.' It will examine the climate in which SOE was created, the feasibility of the tasks it was expected to perform and the relationships it established with Churchill, the Cabinet Office, the Chiefs of …
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One way to live : Orde Wingate and the adoption of ‘special forces’ tactics and strategies (1903-1944)
Winston Churchill declared Major-General Orde Wingate ‘a man of genius’ for developing what he considered low-cost, high-risk, and high-leverage operations in three theaters of the Second World War. One Way to Live: Orde Wingate and the adoption of 'special forces' tactics and strategies …
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Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
… was established in 1940 under the directive of Winston Churchill to collaborate with resistance groups, divert enemy military advances and “set Europe ablaze!” As the world’s armies marched across the globe once more, dozens of women found themselves deployed by the SOE to act as agents and …
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The Rathole Archipelago : industrial pioneers in a hammershop of hell, reflections of the I.W.W. in fiction.
… lives of two fictional heroes: Janet Bumpus in Winston Churchill's The Dwelling Place of Light (1917) and Waclaw Krasinski in W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt's Riot (c.1922). Churchill was one of the most popular writers of his day, and The Dwelling Place of Light was the last novel he wrote …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… at the hands of the Ardens, Brenton, Bond, Churchill and others, who, as their dramatization of history and its idols has shown, have much in common.Although the above playwrights and others were most active towards the end of the sixties and throughout the seventies, their assault, however, …
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Hyde Park and Chartwell in History and Heritage
This dissertation examines Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill’s lives and legacies through the lens of their homes. This dissertation argues that homes are fertile sites for contending with the character of political leaders as physical expressions of identity. In Part One the author focuses …
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Drugi Potop: The Fall of the Second Polish Republic
<p>This thesis seeks to examine the factors that resulted in the fall of the Second Polish Republic and track its downward trajectory. Examining the Second Republic, from its creation in 1918 to its loss of recognition in 1945, reveals that its demise began long before German tanks violated …