Finest years : Churchill as warlord 1940-45 / Max Hastings.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : HarperPress, 2009.Description: xxiii, 664 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780007337743 (tpb.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 636-644) and index.
1. The Battle of France
2. The two Dunkirks
3. Invasion fever
4. The Battle of Britain
5. Greek fire
6. Comrades
7. The Battle of America
8. A glimpse of Arcadia
9. 'The valley of humiliation'
10. Soldiers, bosses and 'slackers'
11. 'Second front now!'
12. Camels and the bear
13. The turn of fortune
14. Out of the desert
15. Sunk in the Aegean
16. Tehran
17. Setting Europe ablaze
18. Overlord
19. Bargaining with an empty wallet
20. Athens : 'wounded in the house of our friends'
21. Yalta
22. The final act.
"Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero, he expected others to show themselves heroes also, and was often disappointed.
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