Churchill

Author: Henry Pelling
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: In terms of materials, this book cites many previously unused sources, including Churchill's own nearly forgotten newspaper articles from the 1930s, as well as cabinet documents and records until the end of World War II. Additionally, the author describes Churchill from multiple perspectives, both as a political figure and as a journalist, historian, painter, and family member, in a specific, detailed, and vivid manner. The book covers Churchill's origins and family background, his military service, his activities as a wartime correspondent in India, Sudan, and South Africa, his rise as a young politician around 1914, the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, his wilderness years in the late 1920s and 1930s, his appointment as Prime Minister in the summer of 1940 replacing Chamberlain, and his retirement. It is a work of moderate length, rich in material, and engaging in writing.