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Travels in the Footsteps of Britain's Last Lion

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Mills Stevenson visits Pretoria in South Africa where in 1899 the young journalist Churchill was imprisoned and then escaped from Boer captivity. He walks the battlefields of Gallipoli in Turkey and looks out on the Dardanelles to ponder why Churchill’s bold military strategy failed. He rides his bicycle along the Western Front of World War I to visit Ploegsteert in Belgium, where Churchill commanded a battalion of the Scots Fusiliers. He visits Chartwell where Churchill spent the years out of office in the 1930s, warning the world of the dangers to come from Hitler and Fascism. He travels to Yalta (yes, on his bicycle) to write about Churchill’s 1945 meetings with Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt, to evaluate his leadership during the Second World War.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-11
Mått:127 x 203 x 12 mm
Vikt:124 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:162
Förlag:Marble Hill Publishers
ISBN:9781739265793

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Mer om författaren

Matthew Mills Stevenson, an American historian who lives near Geneva in Switzerland, gains his inspiration to write by visiting, often on his folding Brompton bicycle, the places where men and woman have made history. He is indeed the Cycling Historian.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. A Tale of Two Blenheims2. The Playing Fields of Harrow and Sandhurst3. Arrested in South Africa4. Escape From a Pretoria Prison5. Failure at the Dardanelles6. Another Look at Gallipoli7. An Ottoman Endgame8. In the Trenches at Plugstreet9. Churchill Returns to Westminster10. Winston of Arabia11. Remember the Mesopotamia12. Weekends in the Country; Countries in a Weekend13. The Storm Gathers Over Europe14. Neville Chamberlain Stumbles towards War15. Hitler Chews the Carpets in Munich16. Poland and Czechoslovakia: What-if History17. Underground in the War Cabinet Rooms18. Italian Stalemates at Monte Cassino and Anzio19. From Roosevelt’s Hyde Park to Yalta20. The Terms of Yalta21. Churchill - On the Road Again22. The Great Success of FailurePlaces and BooksAcknowledgementsCopyright Permissions About Matthew StevensonAbout the Bicycle