Churchill: Military Genius or Menace?

by Stephen Napier

Overview

Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man wanting to take offensive action. But is this accolade deserved? The first few years of the war were nothing short of disastrous, and author Stephen Napier shows how Churchill’s strategies - and his desire not to be the first British prime minister to surrender the nation - brought the war effort to the brink of ruin and back again. Did his series of retaliatory raids in response to a German accidental bombing help cause the Blitz? Were plans already at large for the US to join the war, with Churchill as the primary puppet master? Napier explores all this and more in a shocking examination of Churchill’s leadership using first-person accounts from his peers and his electorate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750986847
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	09/07/2018
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

STEPHEN NAPIER has studied the Second World War for more than thirty years. This work has been give years in the making and follows exhaustive research in the archives of Kew, Washington and Ottawa. His first book, The Armoured Campaign in Normandy was well reviewed, published by The History Press in 2015.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Churchill and Britain Pre-War 11

2 The Phoney War and Nonvegian Overture 25

3 Fall of France 44

4 The Blitz 66

5 Greek Drama 83

6 Placentia and Anglo-American War Plans 103

7 Pearl Harbor and US Rearmament 120

8 The Struggle for Strategy 144

9 Torch and Casablanca 171

10 Sicily 195

11 Italy and Quebec 233

12 Italian Circus 249

13 Overlord and Burma 281

14 Operation Dragoon 310

15 Race to Berlin/Tube Alloys 337

16 Churchill the Leader 360

Notes 416

Bibliography 438

Index 442