Churchill at War 1940-45

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In January 1940, at Scapa Flow on the northern tip of Scotland, when the United States committed its support to Churchill and England; at the White House twelve months later, after Pearl Harbor, when President Roosevelt and the prime minister sealed their alliance; at Casablanca, Moscow, Teheran, Quebec, Yalta, and Potsdamwherever Churchill traveled, conferred, maneuvered, and negotiated throughout the course of the Second World WarLord Moran, his personal physician and confidant, was also there. An eyewitness to history in the making, Moran recorded in his diaries Churchills perspectives on momentous world events and on the world leaders who shaped them, men like Roosevelt, Stalin, and Charles de Gaulle. Out of Morans keenly observant and deeply felt diaries, however, emerges more than a heroic portrait of a twentieth-century titan. Illuminated, too, is the more private and supremely human man: his strengths and failings, his jokes and rages, the flashes of wit, the occasional foolishness, an endearing playfulness. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs, this candid and controversial memoir truly profiles the singular statesman who embodied the soul of a nationif sometimes with his shoes off. Illuminating and engrossing ... highly intelligent and very well-written ... the prose is lively, sometimes amusing, often illuminated by apt metaphors.The New York Times Book Review Eloquent and amazingly forthright.... Lord Morans pages scintillate with the thrust and parry of famous mens verbal exchanges.Chicago Tribune

Product Info

ISBN: 0786710411

ISBN-13: 9780786710416

Publisher: Carroll & Graf

Year: 10/11/2002 12:00:01

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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