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By Wild, Roland1958., General, Ryerson Press Call No: Bio D296w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2006., Random House Call No: Bio S5315h Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More... Summary Note: "Warrior, statesman, peacemaker - few world leaders have had as dramatic and pivotal a life story as Ariel Sharon. And as this new biography shows, perhaps no modern leader's life has been as tightly woven into the history of his nation." "Born in 1928 and raised in spartan circumstances on a kibbutz, Ariel Sharon was taught by his parents to take principled stands and then to plow ahead. And for decades to come Sharon would do just that, forging a life of strength, resilience, and sometimes, according to his detractors, reckless action." "Based on unprecedented access to many of the key players in Sharon's life, hundreds of interviews, and thousands of pages of documents, Ariel Sharon presents a leader who was first and foremost a military man. Sharon fought in Israel's War of Independence (in which he was left for dead on the battlefield); assembled Israel's first special forces brigade, the wild Unit 101; and led the Lebanon War, the most controversial campaign in Israel's history. As a general, he directed military campaigns that are still studied in military academies across the world." "Yet Sharon was also a political animal. This book explores his fraught relationships with prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin, as well as with legendary minister of defense Moshe Dayan; his thirty-year championing of the settlement movement in Gaza and the West Bank; and his startling decision to initiate "disengagement," uprooting settlers, destroying settlements, and dividing his country." "Sharon's personal life has been equally tumultuous, as this book recounts - his first wife, Margalit, was killed in a car accident; his eldest son, Gur, wounded by an accidental rifle discharge, died in his arms. His second wife, Lily (Margalit's younger sister), died of cancer, concluding one of the great love stories of Israeli public life. And ultimately came the stroke that felled Sharon, removing him from power at a time when the Israeli people needed his leadership most."--BOOK JACKET.
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c1986., Norton Call No: Bio F831au Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Norton critical edition.
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1973., A. A. Knopf; [distributed by Random House] Call No: Bio B9325c Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Walking with destiny2018., Adult, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Call No: Bio C563r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'.
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1981-1985., University of British Columbia Press Call No: Bio S573h v. 1 Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library
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c2004., Yale University Press Call No: Bio A3252k Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2013., Yale University Press Call No: Bio G195s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve - what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face. ...All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869-1948), nearly all of them have focused on the national, political, social, economic, educational, environmental, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search of spiritual liberation. Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi's spiritual life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of Gandhi's life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhi's inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in karma and rebirth, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of history's most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the spirit helped liberate millions.
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2014., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Bio G954.03g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A biography of Mohandas Gandhi with a focus on the time he spent in South Africa and England before his return to India in 1915.
