Churchill And War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 353 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Winston Churchill saved Britain and Europe by his incomparable leadership in the Second World War. His involvement in war, however, stretched over a far longer period and was one of the main themes of his long life. Cavalryman at Omdurman, infantry colonel in the trenches, First Lord of the Admiralty, as well as wartime Prime Minister, he wrote copiously about combat as a war correspondent, journalist and historian. Personally brave, he was both excited and repelled by war, and was a powerful strategic thinker. Geoffrey Best shows the importance of war in Churchills career as a whole, from his early days as a hussar in India to his attempts to control the threat of the nuclear bomb. His leadership in the Second World War, which is fully covered, owed much to what he had learnt from earlier wars. Churchill and War, which is not afraid to tackle the question of strategic bombing of Germany, is a rounded portrait of Churchill the warrior.

ISBN: 9781852854645