Piers Brendon.
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CHURCHILL’S BESTIARY: HIS LIFE THROUGH ANIMALS (2018)
The distinguished biographer Piers Brendon was formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives at Churchill College, Cambridge. In this delightful book he relates Churchill’s remarkable admiration of, and relationship, with a wide variety of animals.
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Piers Brendon (born 1940) was educated at Shrewbury School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His PhD was on Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement. After 13 years teaching history at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, he became Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, in succession to Correlli Barnett. He has published numerous historical and biographical books, including a biography of Dwight Eisenhower, and The Dark Valley - a history of the 1930s. He lives in Cambridge with his wife Vyvyen Brendon, who is also an author.
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BIOGRAPHIES BY PIERS BRENDON
Sharpe, Tom. Author. By Piers Brendon. 2024.
Windsors, The. A royal dynasty. By Piers Brendon & Paul Whitehead. 1994.
Elizabeth II. 20th century Queen. By Piers Brendon. 1986.
Eisenhower, Dwight. General and President. By Piers Brendon. 1986.
Eminent Edwardians. By Piers Brendon. 1979.
Hawker of Morwenstow. Victorian eccentric. By Piers Brendon. 1975.
Froude, Hurrell. The Oxford Movement. By Piers Brendon. 1974.