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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Ricks, Thomas E.     Subjects     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Political and social views.     Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Political and social views.     Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.     Fascism -- History -- 20th century.     Communism -- History -- 20th century.     World politics -- 1933-1945.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ricks, Thomas E.       by title:      Churchill and Orwell...       by call number:      941.084 R539c     Search the Web     Ricks, Thomas E.     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Political and social views.     Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Political and social views.     Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.     Fascism -- History -- 20th century.     Communism -- History -- 20th century.     World politics -- 1933-1945.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.       MARC Display

Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom / Thomas E. Ricks by Ricks, Thomas E. Penguin Press, 2017. Call #: 941.084 R539c Subjects Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Political and social views.   Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Political and social views.   Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.   Fascism -- History -- 20th century.   Communism -- History -- 20th century.   World politics -- 1933-1945.   Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945. ISBN:  9781594206139 (hc.) Alternate title:  Churchill & Orwell : the fight for freedom Description:  339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-326) and index Contents:  The two Winstons -- Churchill the adventurer -- Orwell the policeman -- Churchill : down and out in the 1930s -- Orwell becomes "Orwell" : Spain 1937 -- Churchill becomes "Churchill" : Spring 1940 -- Fighting the Germans, reaching out to the Americans : 1940- 1941 -- Churchill, Orwell, and the class war in Britain : 1941 -- Enter the Americans : 1941-1942 -- Grim visions of the postwar world : 1943 -- Animal Farm : 1943-1945 -- Churchill (and Britain) in decline and triumph : 1944-1945 -- Churchill's revenge : the war memoirs -- Orwell in triumph and decline : 1945-1950 -- Churchill's oremature afterlife : 1950-1965 -- Orwell's extraordinary ascension : 1950-2016 -- Afterword: The path of Churchill and Orwell Summary:  "Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's - Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom - that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 941.084 R539c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 941.084 R539c Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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