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100	1		_aHastings, Max.
245	1	0	_aFinest years : _bChurchill as warlord 1940-45 / _cMax Hastings.
260			_aLondon : _bHarperPress, _c2009.
300			_axxiii, 664 p., [32] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 636-644) and index.
505			_a1. 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.
520			_a"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.
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965.
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965 _xMilitary leadership.
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965 _xPublic opinion.
650		0	_aPrime ministers _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945.
650		0	_aPublic opinion _zGreat Britain.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1936-1945.
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