TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hastings,Max
TI  - Finest years: Churchill as warlord 1940-45 
SN  - 9780007337743 (tpb.)
U1  - 941.084092 HAS 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperPress
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - Prime ministers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1936-1945
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -