Charmley turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957. With vivid assessments of Roosevelt, T…
Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in WWI and the disaster of Singapore in WWII. -…
From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of me…
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Eastern Front -- 2 Arctic Danger -- 3 Archangel -- 4 Siberia -- 5 Armistice -- 6 General Denikin -- 7 The Winter War -- 8 The Baltic Knot -- 9 Plan of Attack -- 10 Maynard's Offensive -- 11 The North…
Considered one of the most controversial figures in modern history--highly revered by some and heavily criticized by others--Winston Churchill is defended in this collection of essays covering a variety of topics throughout his life. Arranged in chronological order to show his l…
Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen--Winston Churchill first among them--the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murdero…
