Churchill – Visionary, Statesman, Historian - Hardcover

Lukacs, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300097697 ISBN 13: 9780300097696

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. In previous works John Lukacs told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. In this text he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman. Each chapter of the book provides a portrait of Churchill. Lukacs treats Churchill's vital relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt and Eisenhower, as well as his complex, farsighted political vision concerning the coming of World War II and the Cold War. Lukacs also assesses Churchill's abilities as a historian looking backward into the origins of the conflicts of which he was so much a part. In addition, the author examines the often contradictory ways Churchill has been perceived by critics and admirers alike. The last chapter is an evocation of the three days Lukacs spent in London attending Churchill's funeral in 1965.

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Review:

"John Lukacs’s collection of essays, drawing on a lifetime of research, illuminates many aspects of the great man’s personality and achievement." -- P.M.H. Bell, University of Liverpool

"We are in the presence of one of the most powerful, as well as one of the most learned, minds of the century." -- Conor Cruise O’Brien

About the Author:

John Lukacs is the author of more than twenty books on history, among them The Hitler of History, The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age (which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), Five Days in London, May 1940, The Last European War, 1939-1941, The Duel, At the End of an Age, and A Thread of Years, the last five of which are available from Yale University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300097697
• ISBN 13: 9780300097696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200