A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

The first volume in Churchill's epic history of English-speaking peoples. The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55 BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes...

The second volume in a history of World War II as only Winston Churchill could tell it. At once breath-taking and historical, Churchill's account of the early days of World War II is laced with harrowing honesty. "After the first forty days we were alone," writes Churchill.

The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of 1941 surrounding America's entry into the War and Hitler's march on Russia the continuing onslaught on British civilians during the Blitz, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance between Britain and America that shaped the outcome of the War.

Concluding volume of Churchill's war memoirs, his own 4 volume abridgement of the original 6 volume work. The United States was fully involved in the war, the Germans were sapped by the failed Russian invasion, and Hitler was on the defensive.