This controversial book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of 'Salisbury' tackles six aspects of Churchilliana and uncovers a plethora of disturbing facts about wartime and postwar Britain. His revelations include:
- The case of the impeachment of Lord Mountbatten
- The Nazi sympathies of Sir Arthur Bryant, hitherto considered a "patriotic historian"
- The British Establishment's doubt about Churchill's role after Dunkirk
- The appeasement of the trade unions in Churchill's Indian summer
- The inside story of black immigration in the early 1950s
- The ani-Churchill stance adopted by the Royal Family in 1940
A masterly and original contribution to our recent history offering a disturbing analysis of Britain's postwar decline and present-day predicament.