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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 423 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded.
A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful Hitler in 1940 while the world's democracies...