Books Recommended by Winston Churchill
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Counter-Attack & Other Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
Source: "I am not a bit afraid of [this author]. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think." - Winston Churchill
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Source: "One of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory." - Winston Churchill
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Source: One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.
The Good Earth
House Of Earth, Book 1
Pearl S. Buck
Source: One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.
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