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Winston Churchill's Funeral In 1965 Was Marked By Solemn Pageantry Appropriate For A Man Who Was The Product Of An Imperial Age And Who Had Always Believed In Britain Having A Great Destiny. Yet Even Before His Death, The Country He Identified Himself With Was Disappearing And, Long Before It, He Had Been Criticized As An Anachronism. Since His Death A Constant Flow Of Books And Articles About His Career Has Appeared And In Recent Years Much Of This Has Been Hostile, Portraying Churchill As A Reactionary On Many Issues. Many Have Argued That His Commitment In 1940 To A Total War With Hitler Ignored The Possibility Of A Compromise Peace And Served To Destroy What Remained Of Britain's Wealth And Influence, As Wartime Allies Became Post-war Superpowers. This New Book Addresses These And Other Issues Without Recourse To The Well-tried Format Of Conventional Biography. It Reassesses The Historical Literature Churchill's Life Has Prompted And Looks At Both His Successes And Failures In A Thematic Way. It Considers His Role As A Strategist And Minister In The First World War, His Rejection Of Appeasement In The 1930s, And His Climatic Years As A National Leader From 1940 To 1945. His Oft

Author

Ian S. Wood

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333655535

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-24