Winston Churchill's Last Campaign (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
1996-02-01
Förlag
Clarendon Press
Illustrationer
bibliography
Dimensioner
224 x 146 x 26 mm
Vikt
568 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
viii, 358 p. ;
ISBN
9780198203674

Winston Churchill's Last Campaign

Britain and the Cold War 1951-1955

av John W Young
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1996-02-01
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Renowned for his famous `Iron Curtain' speech of 1946, Winston Churchill is often remembered as a fervent anti-communist. Yet as post-war Prime Minister he became obsessed with the idea of ending the Cold War. In this lucid and persuasive analysis of events during the early 1950s, John Young examines Churchill's vain search for a summit with Soviet leaders, and the divisions this caused within the British government and the Western Alliance. This study fills an important gap in our understanding of Churchill's role in this, the last great political campaign of one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century.
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Evening Standard cragoeoung's book describes Churchill's own approach to this last political crisis more exhaustively and sympathetically than ever before...

Times Literary Supplement A ... robust account of Churchill's peacetime performance. Young charts with great skill the course of Churchill's quest for a summit...He knits together the complex threads of foreign documents with the domestic record, to yield a first class account of a major episode in the early history of the Cold War.

Contemporary Review Professor Young does us all a service with his detailed yet easily read account of all that followed the Fulton speech and shows Churchill's intentions beyond doubt. Here is a factual history praising its subject, showing him to be no warmonger and yet acknowledging the problems of advancing age. This well written and well documented book gives us a critical, but fair view of the issues dominating the last years of one of our greatest statesmen and how he tried to deal with them. It deserves to be read widely and to be held for future reference.

John Ramsden, Queen Mary and Westfield College, EHR Feb. 97 Young's book provides a subtle, well-written and cogently-argued reply to Charmley's thesis about the post-war Churchill. Winston Churchill's Last Campaign demonstrates with wealth of documented detail just how consistently Churchill pursued a single aim ... beyond the foreign policy issues that form the core of the book, Young shows with convincing clarity just how Churchill's decline affected Tory politics in his last administration.

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