| In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War Contributor(s): Reynolds, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465003303 ISBN-13: 9780465003303 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $28.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Drawing on Churchill's manuscripts and correspondence, David Reynolds paints an even more admirable portrait of the man |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 940.53 |
| Physical Information: 1.78" H x 6.24" W x 9.14" (1.55 lbs) 672 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the war's premier historian. From 1948-54, he published six volumes of memoirs. They secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict to this day. Drawing on the drafts of Churchill's manuscript as well as his correspondence from the period, David Reynolds masterfully reveals Churchill the author. Reynolds shows how the memoirs were censored by the British government to conceal state secrets, and how Churchill himself censored them to avoid offending current world leaders. This book illuminates an unjustly neglected period of Churchill's life-the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into the prime-ministership, and delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. |