Churchill walking with destiny

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'

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Churchill

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Churchill Walking with Destiny

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New york times bestseller one of the wall street journal s ten best books of 2018 one of the economist s best books of 2018 one of the new york times s notable books of 2018 unarguably the best single volume biography of churchill a brilliant feat of storytelling monumental in scope yet put Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Churchill

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the international bestseller a sunday times the times economist daily telegraph evening standard observer book of the year undoubtedly the best single volume life of churchill ever written dominic sandbrook sunday times a magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of churchill by one of Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 september 2019

Aantal pagina's: 1152

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Andrew Roberts

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 51 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 51 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 820 g

EAN: 9780141981253

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