Unemployment in Europe asks why European unemployment is so high and examines the policies adopted at local, national and European level to tackle the problems. It includes case studies of five major European cities with high unemployment.

This first volume of the projected three-volume series deals with the first steps in Churchill's career and with world events from 1874 to 1911.

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and shine fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of his extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera and Charles De Gaulle. The letters are presented in chronological order, with a preface to each explaining the context, and they are accompanied throughout by facsimiles of said letters and photographs, offering the reader a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 William of Orange was the father of Queen Victoria. He was born into a loveless marriage and had a difficult childhood, but he had a remorseless fire within him that he hid behind his Dutch surroundings. He was ruthless. #2 William was a very cold and calculating man. He had little interest in England’s domestic affairs, and only wanted the wealth and power of England for the European war. He used the English public men who had been his confederates for his own ends, and rewarded them for their services. #3 The British nation had been united in the expulsion of James. But there was no lawful government, and a Convention Parliament was summoned by the Prince on the advice of the statesmen who had made the Revolution. The whole British nation was committed to the general coalition against France. #4 The British Isles went into a dangerous war crisis in 1689. The exiled King James was received by Louis with every mark of consideration and sympathy, and he was soon defended by a Catholic army which may have reached a hundred thousand men.

Edwards contends that Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself.

Churchill was an extraordinary figure. There has never been anyone quite like him, and inevitably legends have accumulated. How can he be treated both realistically and fairly after so much has been written about his controversial career by himself and others? This is a fresh look at Churchill and his role in twentieth-century history. Each of the authors in this book is an authority on at least one aspect of Churchill's life. The result is a fascinating interplay of ideas about his policies and motives. Some of it is critical and unflattering. Even the greatest of statesmen can make mistakes and misjudgements, and Churchill was at the centre of the political scene for more that half a century. Yet he emerges with both his integrity and his greatness intact. His achievement seems as remarkable as ever. The picture that is drawn by this lively and readable study is of an astonishing personality with some flaws but also with immense strengths. The book provides a fuller understanding of how Churchill came to be, in A.J.P. Taylor's words, `the saviour of his nation'.

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