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Churchill

Autor Geoffrey Best
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 feb 2003
Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. In recent years his record has come under attack. In Churchill: A Study in Greatness, one of Britain's most distinguished historians makes sense of this extraordinary man and his long, controversial, colourful, contradictory and heroic career. What was at the heart of him? Was he a romantic or a realist? How central was his part in Britain's survival and in the defeat of Hitler? Geoffrey Best brings out both his strengths and his weaknesses, looking past the many received versions of Churchill in a biography that balances the private and the public man and offers a fresh insight into his character.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781852852535
ISBN-10: 1852852534
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Illustrations \ Prologue \ 1. Unwillingly to School \ 2. Willingly to War \ 3. Clementine and the Commons \ 4. Board of Trade and Home Office \ 5. First Lord of the Admiralty \ 6. The Dardanelles \ 7. Recovery \ 8. Bolsheviks and Irishmen \ 9. Eastern Questions \ 10. Tory Chancellor \ 11. Empire and India \ 12. Chartwell and Hitler \ 13. 'Winston is Back!' \ 14. His Finest Hour \ 15. Democratic Warlord \ 16. 'Action This Day' \ 17. America and Roosevelt \ 18. Special Operations and Bombing Offensive \ 19. France and de Gaulle \ 20. Russia and Stalin \ 21. Victory Overcast \ 22. Iron Curtain \ 23. Summitry and the Bomb \ 24. Return to Downing Street \ 25. Sunset and Nightfall \ 26. Epilogue \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index

Recenzii

'my favourite Winston Churchill biography of all, though, is Geoffrey Best's 'Churchill: A Study of Greatness' which combines all the biographical information with a real sense of what it felt like to be English in Churchill's era.'

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One of the glorious triumvirate of World War II and founder of the strong Anglo-American friendship that is still apparent today, Winston Churchill stands out in history as a man who led his country through one of its most difficult times, with all of the steadfastness of a fierce and loyal bulldog. Churchill was already recognized as the most diversely gifted man in British politics before, at the ripe old age of 66, he suddenly emerged as a figure of world importance. Becoming Prime Minister on the very day in 1940 that Hitler invaded France and the Low Countries, he braced the British people to continue fighting and even to counterattack the, up to that point, all-victorious Germans. A clever and confident statesman, with an obvious love for the people he served, for years Churchill's character went unchallenged and his inspiring leadership left him above criticism. Recently, however, his record has come under attack. In Churchill: A Study in Greatness, one of Britain's most distinguished historians makes sense of this extraordinary man, and his long, controversial, colorful, contradictory and heroic career. Geoffrey Best illuminates both his strengths and his weaknesses, looking past the many received versions of Churchill, in a biography that balances the private and the public man and offers a clear insight into what made him truly great.

Notă biografică

Geoffrey Best is one of Britain's most distinguished historians. His many books include War and Law since 1945, Humanity in Warfare, and Mid-Victorian Britain. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C., and is currently a Senior Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford.