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ISBN: 978-1-84243-322-5
extent: 160pp
binding: paperback
price £7.99
pub. date October 2009

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featuring:

Omdurman
The Boer War
Home Secretary
First Lord of the Admiralty
Gallipoli
The Wilderness Years
Appeasement
Winston is Back
Their Finest Hour
Stalin
Roosevelt
The End of the Beginning
V for Victory
World Statesman
The Iron Curtain
and more...

During his long and extraordinary life, Winston Churchill was a central figure in almost all of the tumultuous events of the first half of the twentieth century. He was a soldier, writer and politician and, after the Second World War, he became one of the world's greatest statesmen. But his reputation rests on his role as a war leader and, in particular, on the period between May 1940 and July 1941, when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany.

Since his death in 1965, a few dissenting voices have cast his as, amongst other things, an opportunist and war-monger. But, as flawed as he undoubtedly was, most modern historians and politicians still hold him in the highest regard. In order to gain a better understanding of this remarkable man, this book looks at some of the key moments in Churchill's life, including his role in the British Army's last cavalry charge in the Battle of Omdurman and his escape from a prisoner of war camp during the Boer War. It then focuses on those momentous times when Churchill's courage and force of character almost single-handedly dragged Britain back from the brink of defeat in the Second World War and onwards towards an eventual Allied victory, making him, in the eyes of many people, one of the greatest of all Great Britons...

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