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Finest years Churchill as warlord 1940-45

Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide be...

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Main Author: Hastings, Max (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Harper Press 2009
Subjects:
Churchill, Winston > 1874-1965
Churchill, Winston > 1874-1965 > Military leadership
Churchill, Winston > 1874-1965 > Public opinion
Prime ministers > Great Britain > Biography
World war, 1939-1945
Public opinion > Great Britain
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945
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Table of Contents:
  • The Battle of France
  • The two Dunkirks
  • Invasion fever
  • The Battle of Britain
  • Greek fire
  • Comrades
  • The Battle of America
  • A glimpse of Arcadia
  • 'The valley of humiliation'
  • Soldiers, bosses and 'slackers'
  • 'Second front now!'
  • Camels and the bear
  • The turn of fortune
  • Out of the desert
  • Sunk in the Aegean
  • Tehran
  • Setting Europe ablaze
  • Overlord
  • Bargaining with an empty wallet
  • Athens : 'wounded in the house of our friends'
  • Yalta
  • The final act.

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