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Willams's work offers the reader a unique analysis of church history by illuminating the crucial role of spirituality in church life, providing salient insights for those interested in the development of the church.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227597025653,"sku":"9780227179864","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780227179864_6b47e339-528f-45de-9cde-598e4b6122b2.jpg?v=1786012683"},{"product_id":"9780471180715","title":"The Last Great Frenchman","description":"Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman  \"This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verveand anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle'scareer as soldier, politician, and head of state.\" --PublishersWeekly.     \"Highly readable. . . . It is to Williams' credit that he is ableto get so close to such a prickly personality.\" --San FranciscoChronicle  \"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near toa great book.\" --Daily Telegraph (London)  \"Marvelous vignettes. . . . Williams tells his story with pace andskill.\" --Martin Gilbert","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290767536501,"sku":"9780471180715","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780471180715_14336c1c-d5d8-47d8-ba02-600f15c91971.jpg?v=1786013725"},{"product_id":"9780753827024","title":"Harold Macmillan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his wife's open adultery and his progressive perplexity at the onward march of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First World War showed the courageous soldier. From then on, it was politics, rather than the family business of publishing, which was to be his future. Nevertheless, although he supported Churchill in the 1930s he was deemed boring - and certainly not ministerial material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll changed with the Second World War. Appointed Minister in Residence in North Africa, Macmillan's career flowered. After the War he became indispensable to Conservative Cabinets and as Churchill's Minister of Housing in the early 1950s he achieved the target, against all expectations, of 300,000 houses annually. Thereafter, he was Eden's Foreign Secretary and Chancellor but by then Macmillan had become openly ambitious. Over the Suez affair in 1956 he played a difficult - and somewhat devious - hand.  Eden's resignation left him as the clear choice of his Cabinet colleagues to become Prime Minister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1957 to 1962, Macmillan was a good - some would say a great - Prime Minister.  By 1962, however, his government was looking tired. The Profumo affair in 1963 was particularly damaging, and in the autumn of 1963 his health forced him to retire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294724731253,"sku":"9780753827024","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780753827024_cfce8258-1867-44c2-a46a-6e32f3066704.jpg?v=1786015818"},{"product_id":"petain","title":"Petain","description":"\"Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the army ranks was leading inexorably to retirement when war broke out. He defended Verdun in 1916 and settled the mutinies in 1917.  In May 1940, he realised that France had been defeated and requested an armistice. As head of unoccupied France, he jockeyed between Nazis, Allies and Vichy politicians until, in 1945, he returned to France to be tried for treason. His death sentence was commuted by General de Gaulle to life imprisonment.  In recounting Petain's long life, Lord Williams, one of our most notable political biographers, has successfully illustrated the character of an extraordinary man.\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499285127541,"sku":"9780349115627","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349115627.jpg?v=1786694599"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-charles-williams.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}