The Connell Guide To Winston Churchill - Softcover

Paul Addison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907776842 ISBN 13: 9781907776847

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2016

Synopsis

Winston Churchill was the greatest wartime prime minister in Britain's history. To his defenders he was not only the man who saved the West from the tyranny of Nazi Germany, but an exceptional human being, abounding in physical and moral courage, a genius who stood head and shoulders above his rivals. To his detractors, he was more of a liability than an asset in World War Two, sacrificing the interests of Britain to those of the Soviet Union and the United States. In this short, incisive guide, Paul Addison, the author of the Dictionary of National Biography entry on Churchill, analyses his extraordinary career and looks at the radically different ways in which historians have seen him.

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About the Author

Paul Addison is a British author and historian, specializing in the British experience in the Second World War and its effects on post-war society. After graduating from Nuffield College, Oxford in 1967, Addison became a Lecturer at Edinburgh University and subsequently a Reader, for 23 years. He became an Endowment Fellow in 1990, and Directed the Centre for Second World War Studies from 1996 to 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907776842
• ISBN 13: 9781907776847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Jolyon Connell