Michael Shelden Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

In modern memory, Winston Churchill is often seen as the composed leader amid chaos. However, at 40, he was deemed washed up, with his best days behind him. Historian Michael Shelden presents a biography that focuses on Churchill’s early career from 1901 to 1915, a period that nearly led to his downfall but also shaped the character that would later prevail in World War II. During this time, Churchill built a modern navy, experimented with social reforms, survived life-threatening situations, and navigated complex relationships with British monarchs. He became a husband and father, assessed the German military, authorized executions, and faced the horrors of the Western front. Throughout these challenges, he learned to outsmart rivals, navigate bureaucratic hurdles, question his upbringing, practice patience, and value loyalty. Shelden also portrays Churchill as a young romantic, pursuing three prominent beauties of British society with charm and poetic flair. In a captivating episode, he rushes to comfort the heartbroken daughter of a prime minister before his own marriage. This era was marked by drama, intrigue, and personal courage. Shelden's biography reveals how Churchill’s later triumphs were built on the lessons learned during these formative struggles.

An intimate portrait of acclaimed novelist Graham Greene reveals previously hidden facts about his mysterious double life as a spy and his complex sex life and provides a radical reinterpretation of some of his major works. 30,000 first printing.

Orwell's reputation - as political seer, novelist, propagandist and diarist - only grows with the passage of time. He also lived an extraordinary varied life, as a colonial policeman, drop out and Spanish Civil War volunteer. This new and thoroughly-researched life brings out many few facts about the man and sets out to re-evaluate his significance. The human qualities that make the story of Orwell's life so appealing dominate this biography - his integrity, his humility and courage, his odd mixture of radical and conservative attitudes, his struggle to balance the public and private sides of his character

Well past their prime, the ladies who rent rooms in Amy Doll's house indulge in genteel prostitution with their elderly gentlemen friends in order to pay the rent. How will Amy keep her daughter in ignorance of the scandalous goings-on? A tale poking fun at the English passion for respectability.