CHURCHILLA Study in Greatness A Study in Greatness [Hardcover]

Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. In recent years his record has come under attack. In Churchill: A Study in Greatness, one of Britain's most distinguished historians makes sense of this extraordinary man and his long, controversial, colourful, contradictory and heroic career. What was at the heart of him? Was he a romantic or a realist? How central was his part in Britain's survival and in the defeat of Hitler? Geoffrey Best brings out both his strengths and his weaknesses, looking past the many received versions of Churchill in a biography that balances the private and the public man and offers a fresh insight into his character.

Geoffrey Bestis the author ofMid-Victorian Britain, Humanity in Warfare and War and Law since 1945.

a rich portrait, presenting the man's great virtues and small vices in the right proportions and restoring him to his proper place as a giant of the twentiet century. W. F. Deedes

List of Illustrations \ Prologue \ 1. Unwillingly to School \ 2. Willingly to War \ 3. Clementine and the Commons \ 4. Board of Trade and Home Office \ 5. First Lord of the Admiralty \ 6. The Dardanelles \ 7. Recovery \ 8. Bolsheviks and Irishmen \ 9. Eastern Questions \ 10. Tory Chancellor \ 11. Empire and India \ 12. Chartwell and Hitler \ 13. 'Winston is Back!' \ 14. His Finest Hour \ 15. Democratic Warlord \ 16. 'Action This Day' \ 17. America and Roosevelt \ 18. Special Operations and Bombing Offensive \ 19. France and de Gaulle \ 20. Russia and Stalin \ 21. Victory Overcast \ 22. Iron Curtain \ 23. Summitry and the Bomb \ 24. Return to Downing Street \ 25. Sunset and Nightfall \ 26. Epilogue \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index