Dimensions
142 x 206 x 26mm
Winston Churchill, to many the greatest British politician and statesman of the 20th century, as seen by the leading military historian of his generation.
John Keegan's fascination with Winston Churchill goes back to when he was at school in WWII. Viewing him as a war hero and then again in the early 1950s as Prime Minister, Keegan now wears his historian's hat to consider the life and role that Winston Churchill played in the history of the first half of the twentieth century.
Was Churchill as great a wartime leader as he has hitherto been made out? Keegan discusses the view of the soldiers such as Alanbrooke, his wartime Chief of Staff, who thought Churchill better as a pragmatist than as a strategist, witnessed by Gallipoli in WWI and myriad near-misses in WWII. He also considers Churchill the politician, who got it wrong so often, not least at the 1945 election.
Keegan also writes vividly about Churchill's upbringing, his relations with his syphilitic father Lord Randolph Churchill and his wild American mother Jenny Jerome.
