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Winston's war : Churchill, 1940-1945 / Max Hastings.
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Hastings, Max
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
DA566.9.C5 H274 2009
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World War, 1939-1945
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Great Britain
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Politics, Practical
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Great Britain
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Politics and government
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1936-1945
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Great Britain
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History, Military
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20th century
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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965
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Military leadership
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Hastings, Max.
Finest years.
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Summary note
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.
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ISBN
9780307268396
030726839X
LCCN
2009038836
OCLC
645702718
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