Dimensions
129 x 199 x 8mm
A Teach Yourself - Key Figures Beginner's Guide.
This book reveals the real Churchill behind the myth of one of the great figures in twentieth-century history. Learn how Churchill, a romantic and a rebel, fell out of favour many times before becoming Britain's greatest wartime leader in 1940.
Nigel Rodger's informative text explores:
- The troubled childhood and youth of a rebel aristocrat
- Churchill's remarkable radicalism in a Liberal administration
- The wilderness years - Churchill is out of office but in the right about Hitler
- The hour of destiny - at last he becomes Prime Minister to rally the nation
- The legend - why the myth of the cigar-smoking great Englishman lives on
The facts . . . the concepts . . . the ideas . . .