Free Download Adrianna M. Santos, "Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival "
English | ISBN: 3031128621 | 2024 | 205 pages | EPUB, PDF | 615 KB + 3 MB
This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana literature and decolonial trauma theory, one which questions the colonial matrix of power and the universality of Western knowledge. Santos argues that Chicana survival narratives arise out of colonial wounds and form scars that both mark and protect the violated body. Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands proposes a "cicatrix poetics" that makes bold gestures toward healing and narrative/storytelling as survival. The book contends that the cicatrix fashioned through artistic expression is a necessary component for Chicana communities―not just to survive, but to thrive. The books presents several case studies that examine transformative narrativity and by theorizing the texts as survival narratives, social protest works that bring attention to violence and erasure, the chapters explore how literature can be an effective catalyst for both social change and personal transformation, an orientation towards freedom, liberation through love.

Free Download Nigel Knight, "Churchill. The Greatest Briton Unmasked"
English | ISBN: 0715328530 | 2008 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1413 KB
In his brand new assessment of Winston Churchill's political career Nigel Knight challenges the sentimental image of the great wartime leader and argues that Churchill's impact on Great Britain was, in fact, consistently disastrous. The author backs up his arguments with rigorous academic research to provide a fresh insight into Churchill's entire career This book covers Churchill's time as pre-war Chancellor and his contradictory economic policies. It also looks at his time as Prime Minister and his wartime blunders, as well as the post-war period when he failed to rectify his past errors. It includes 16 pages of fascinating archive photographs.

Free Download M. Folly, "Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940-45 "
English | ISBN: 1349413348 | 2000 | 248 pages | PDF | 76 MB
World War II threw Britain and the Soviet Union together as unlikely allies. This book examines British policy-makers' attitudes to cooperation with the USSR and shows how views of internal developments in the USSR and of Stalin himself influenced Churchill, the War Cabinet and the Foreign Office to believe that long-term collaboration was a desirable and achievable goal. In particular, it was assumed that a shared concern to prevent future German aggression would be a lasting bond. Such attitudes significantly shaped Britain's wartime policy towards the USSR, and for many individuals, including Churchill, played a more important role than their long-standing anti-Communist attitudes.

Free Download Patrick J. Buchanan, "Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World"
English | ISBN: 0307405168 | 2009 | 560 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 5 MB + 4 MB
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?

Free Download Martin Thornton, "Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911-14"
English | ISBN: 1349453307 | 2013 | 206 pages | PDF | 940 KB
In 1911, Winston S. Churchill and Robert L. Borden became companions in an attempt to provide naval security for the British Empire as a naval crisis loomed with Germany. Their scheme for Canada to provide battleships for the Royal Navy as part of an Imperial squadron was rejected by the Senate with great implications for the future.

Free Download Dr. Larry Arnn, "Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government"
English | ISBN: 0718096215 | 2016 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB
"A masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship...the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member of the literate general public should read....Beautifully written." -Lewis E. Lehrman, cofounder of the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and distinguished director of the Abraham Lincoln Association

Free Download Henry Pelling, "Churchill's Peacetime Ministry, 1951-55"
English | ISBN: 0333677099 | | 225 pages | PDF | 23 MB
The first study of the Churchill government of 1951-55 based on the Prime Minister's political papers (including his correspondence with President Eisenhower) and diaries and letters of Eden, Butler and other ministers. A picture emerges, not of a Government dominated by Churchill as in wartime, but of many sharp disagreements about foreign and domestic policy. But in spite of Churchill's stroke in 1953 and Eden's serious illness they emerged to win major diplomatic successes. Meanwhile Butler and Macmillan both attained leadership status.

Free Download James W. Muller, "Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech Fifty Years Later "
English | ISBN: 0826212476 | | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Winston Churchill's visit to Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, marked the first public recognition of the cold war that was to follow World War II. Churchill delivered his most famous speech, "The Sinews of Peace," which became best known by the phrase he used to describe the cold-war division of Europe, the "iron curtain."

Free Download Mord Bogie, "Churchill's Horses and the Myths of American Corporations: Power, Stakeholders, and Governance"
English | ISBN: 1567200737 | | 232 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
The large public corporations powering the U.S. economy―Churchill's Horses, in Bogie's metaphor―are underachievers, and all of us are paying the price. Why? The reasons are shrouded in the myths that these corporations use to mask their great power and disguise the interests it serves. Myth: the shareholders who own a public corporation control it by electing the directors who govern it. Anti-Myth (fact): shareholders of a public corporation don't elect the directors, and the directors don't govern the corporation. Shareholders don't even own the corporation in any meaningful sense of the word. Yet Churchill's Horses spend billions propping up the current price of their shares rather than invest the money in their (and our) future prosperity. Using many voices from current and recent business literature, Bogie leads you through myths and anti-myths to understand how public corporations have lost focus and ignored their most important stakeholders. Few readers will emerge with all their assumptions and beliefs intact.

Free Download Margaret Elizabeth Forster, "Churchill's Grandmama: Frances, 7th Duchess of Marlborough"
English | ISBN: 0752455524 | 2010 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother (the mother of Randolph) has been a background figure in many biographies but her own story has never been told until now. As the eldest daughter of 3rd Marchioness of Londonderry, Frances's life was steeped in great historical names and occasions, from Tsar Alexander I and the Duke of Wellington (her godfather) to her childhood friendship with Queen Victoria, and ultimately her famous grandson, Sir Winston Churchill. She was an inspiring woman who transformed Blenheim Palace into not only a family home, but also a social and political focus for the life of the nation. She was a deeply caring woman who often acted as a surrogate mother to the younger members of her family, including Winston. Her crowning achievement, fully and dramatically retold in this book, was her humanity, leadership, and skill in averting the effects of the Irish potato famine of 1879. It was this most public performance which brought Frances the award of the Order of Victoria and Albert from Queen Victoria herself, normally reserved for members of the royal family. This absorbing and remarkable book restores a most gracious lady to her proper place at Blenheim, and includes previously unpublished photos and a foreword by the present 11th Duke of Marlborough.