CHURCHILL:A Study in Greatness: A Study in Greatness

by Geoffrey Best

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852852535
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/05/2003
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Best is the author of Mid-Victorian Britain, Humanity in Warfare and War and Law since 1945.

Table of Contents

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. Returban to Downing Street
25. Sunset and Nightfall
26. Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

a rich portrait, presenting the man's great virtues and small vices in the right proportions and restoring him to his proper place as a giant of the twentiet century.” —W. F. Deedes

From the Publisher

a rich portrait, presenting the man's great virtues and small vices in the right proportions and restoring him to his proper place as a giant of the twentiet century.

W. F. Deedes

A study of character, rather than an encyclopedic biography, but there is little that is missing; and it is superbly written.

LA Times Sunday Book Review

A study of character, rather than an encyclopedic biography, but there is little that is missing; and it is superbly written.

Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review

I should have made nothing if I had not made mistakes.

Churchill