Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Andrew Roberts
Widely acclaimed as the single best one-volume biography of Winston Churchill, utilizing newly released royal diaries and wartime cabinet records to depict the man who saved Western democracy.
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
by Ramachandra Guha (2018)
About this book
The masterly second volume of Guha landmark biography follows Gandhi from his return to India in 1915 to his assassination in 1948, chronicling the Salt March, Quit India, partition, and the moral struggles of the Indian independence movement.
Setting / LocationIndia
Story EraMid 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreMahatma Gandhi (Father of the Nation)
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