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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Hastings, Max.     Subjects     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Public opinion.     Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945.     Public opinion -- Great Britain.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hastings, Max.       by title:      Winston's war : Chur...       by call number:      941.084 C563h 2010     Search the Web     Hastings, Max.     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Public opinion.     Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945.     Public opinion -- Great Britain.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.       MARC Display

Winston's war : Churchill, 1940-1945 / Max Hastings. by Hastings, Max. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call #: 941.084 C563h 2010 Subjects Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965   Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.   Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Public opinion.   Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945.   Public opinion -- Great Britain.   Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945. ISBN:  9780307268396 030726839X Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  xi, 555 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in Great Britain as Finest years : Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45 by HarperPress ..., London, in 2009"--T.p. verso. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf." -- T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-523) and index. Summary:  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."--From publisher. Other authors:  Hastings, Max. Finest years. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 941.084 C563h 2010 Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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