Winston's war : Churchill, 1940-1945 / Max Hastings.

Author
Hastings, Max [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st U.S. ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Description
xi, 555 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity about Hastings's title; after 1943, the conflict was anything but Winston's war. For a time, Churchill alone had embodied the West's hopes; but as the war turned in the Allies' favor, he was shunted aside. Roosevelt ignored his advice, and, to Churchill's horror, signed off on Stalin's subjugation of Eastern Europe. In these last years, we see a much diminished war leader. Churchill deserves our admiration; first, however, as Hastings wisely insists, "history must take Churchill as a whole."--Publisher description.
    Notes
    "Originally published in Great Britain as Finest years : Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45 by HarperPress ..., London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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"
    • "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.
    ISBN
    • 9780307268396
    • 030726839X
    LCCN
    2009038836
    OCLC
    645702718
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