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050 00 DA566.9.C5 |bH274 2009
100 1  Hastings, Max.
245 10 Winston's war : |bChurchill, 1940-1945 / |cMax Hastings.
250    First U.S. edition.
264  1 New York : |bAlfred A. Knopf, |c2010.
300    xi, 555 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    "Originally published in Great Britain as Finest years : Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45 by HarperPress ..., London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity about Hastings's title; after 1943, the conflict was anything but Winston's war. For a time, Churchill alone had embodied the West's hopes; but as the war turned in the Allies' favor, he was shunted aside. Roosevelt ignored his advice, and, to Churchill's horror, signed off on Stalin's subjugation of Eastern Europe. In these last years, we see a much diminished war leader. Churchill deserves our admiration; first, however, as Hastings wisely insists, "history must take Churchill as a whole."--From publisher description.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Churchill, Winston, |d1874-1965 |xMilitary leadership.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |zGreat Britain.
651  0 Great Britain |xPolitics and government |y1936-1945.
651  0 Great Britain |xHistory, Military |y20th century.
700 1  Hastings, Max. |tFinest years.
852 0   |bstacks |hDA566.9.C5 |iH274 2009