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Lord Halifax (characters)

This character appears in 12 books.


  1. The Remains of the Day

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Lord Halifax: The Foreign Secretary of Britain during the period culminating in World War II.

  2. War Without Mercy

    Race and Power in the Pacific War

    by John W. Dower

    Lord Halifax: Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940. As such he is often regarded as one of the architects of the policy of appeasement prior to World War II. During the war, he served as British Ambassador in Washington.

  3. Oxford History of the United States: Book 9

    Freedom from Fear

    The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

    by David M. Kennedy

  4. Churchill

    The Unexpected Hero

    by Paul Addison

  5. The Storm of War

    A New History of the Second World War

    by Andrew Roberts

  6. Go Softly All My Years

    by Virginia Benson

  7. Prague Winter

    A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

    by Madeleine Albright


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