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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches

10 best books like Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches (Winston S. Churchill): Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940, The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana, Combat Crew, Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, Edward I, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814, Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-43

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940
AuthorJames MacGregor Burns
ISBN0156027623
This review is for both volumes of this biography

The two volumes of James MacGregor Burns’ magisterial political biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are unique in their intricate and nuanced understanding of FDR as a political operator. While other biographies may give one more of...
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
AuthorPeter Hitchens
ISBN1893554392
A surprise best seller in England, The Abolition of Britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what “the idea of England” has always meant to the West and to the world at large. One English critic called The Abolition of Britain “an elegant jeremiad”...
Combat Crew
AuthorJohn Comer
Combat Crew is one of the best memoirs about the air war over Europe ever written.

John Comer kept a journal of the 25 missions he flew in 1943 when the casualty rate on his base was close to 80%. After each raid Comer gathered the crew together and pieced together the air battle from a 360-degree...
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
AuthorJohn Julius Norwich
ISBN0743200314
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly...
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
AuthorDavid Abulafia
ISBN0195080408
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily, King of Jerusalem, has, since his death in 1250, enjoyed a reputation as one of the most remarkable monarchs in the history of Europe. His wide cultural tastes, his apparent tolerance of Jews and Muslims, his defiance of the papacy, and...
Edward I
AuthorMichael Prestwich
ISBN0300071574
Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s but became involved in a bitter...
Queen Victoria's Little Wars
AuthorByron Farwell
ISBN0393302350
From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted...
Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814
AuthorPierre Berton
ISBN0385658389
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth...
Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0156302861
Conceptually weak, yet readable, popular history of the British empire, this 3rd book in a 3-part series deals with the last years of the 19th century through the middle part of the 20 century, focusing mainly on geopolitical strategy, armed conflict, leadership figures, and popular sentiment within...
Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-43
AuthorAlan Moorehead
ISBN0140275142
North Africa was one of the greatest theaters of the Second World War. Alan Moorehead's bestselling account of the Allied/Axis desert conflict is an epic story of electrifying details and keen historical insights. The Desert War interweaves vivid snapshots of war with eyewitness portraits of the...
Escape From Colditz
AuthorP.R. Reid
The Colditz Story gets Five Stars to honor the men who would not be caged and fought to escape the toughest Stalag in Nazi Germany. This book is just as exciting to read as it likely was back in the early ‘50s when it was first published. Nail-biting successful and unsuccessful escape attempts from start...
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
AuthorDavid Irving
ISBN1840222050
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has been described as one of the ten greatest military commanders of all time. This biography of the charismatic leader relies almost entirely on the original of the period. David Irving's exhaustive research has led him to a dusty personnel file on the young Rommel applying...
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
AuthorDavid Fraser
ISBN0880642610
A spellbinding biography of Prussia's soldier-king who changed the face of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, was a legendary ruler, artistic patron, man of letters, lawgiver, and commander -- in David Fraser's words, "one of the most extraordinary men ever to sit on a throne or command an army."...
The Germans
AuthorGordon A. Craig
ISBN0452010853
They have given mankind triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practical, proud and insecure, ruthless and good-natured. They are, in short, the Germans.
Gordon A. Craig,...
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
AuthorKarl E. Meyer
ISBN0465045766
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis & the Road to War
AuthorIan Kershaw
ISBN1594200300
Chas Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, was born to power. Scion of an aristocratic family, Churchill's cousin, royal confidant, owner of vast coal fields & landed estates, wed to the doyenne of London society, he was an ornament to his class, the .1% who still owned...
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945 (Modern Library War)
AuthorClay Blair Jr.
ISBN0679640339
"As always with Blair, the work is meticulously reported and smoothly written."    ---Los Angeles Times


In The Hunters, 1939-1942, the first volume of Hitler's U-boat War, Clay Blair described the Battle of the Atlantic, waged first against the British Empire and then against...
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
AuthorFritz Stern
ISBN0520026268
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbein, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives...
The Collapse of the Third Republic
AuthorWilliam L. Shirer
ISBN0306805626
On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of gray German uniforms along its boulevards. In just six lovely weeks in the spring and summer of 1940 a single battle brought down in total military defeat one of the world's oldest, greatest, and most civilized...
Edward IV
AuthorCharles Derek Ross
ISBN0300073720
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as...
Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals
AuthorNiall Ferguson
ISBN0465023231
What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary...
Rickenbacker: An Autobiography
AuthorEddie V. Rickenbacker
ISBN0137810059
Here is Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's story, told in his own words, from his racing days at the Indianapolis 500, to his time as a pilot on the Western Front in 1918 where he emerged as America's top fighter ace, his postwar career in the airline industry, his World War II service as a special confidential...
The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
AuthorJohn Lukacs
ISBN0300089163
This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat..
Henry VIII
AuthorJ.J. Scarisbrick
ISBN0520011309
This was a stunning book, from J.J. Scarisbrick's forward, to the death of Henry VIII and his funeral. It is so well written that I scarcely noticed the ultimate integrity of its scholarly bona fides, but they were there when I called them to mind and investigated. Because of its wonderful style existing...
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