List of Illustrations Prologue 1. Unwillingly to School 2. Willingly to War 3. Clementine and the Commons 4. Board of Trade and Home Office 5. First Lord of the Admiralty 6. The Dardanelles 7. Recovery 8. Bolsheviks and Irishmen 9. Eastern Questions 10. Tory Chancellor 11. Empire and India 12. Chartwell and Hitler 13. 'Winston is Back!' 14. His Finest Hour 15. Democratic Warlord 16. 'Action This Day' 17. America and Roosevelt 18. Special Operations and Bombing Offensive 19. France and de Gaulle 20. Russia and Stalin 21. Victory Overcast 22. Iron Curtain 23. Summitry and the Bomb 24. Return to Downing Street 25. Sunset and Nightfall 26. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Geoffrey Best began his academic life in Cambridge, as
undergraduate and research student at Trinity College and then as a
History Fellow of Trinity Hall. He went on to teach history at the
Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex and, after six years as
Academic Visitor at the L S E, ended up teaching International
Relations at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has held
visiting posts at the Universities of Harvard and Chicago and at
the Woodrow Wilson International Centre, Washington DC. His
previous publications include Humanity in Warfare, Honour among Men
and Nations, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe and the
prize-winning pair, War and Law since 1945 and Churchill: a Study
in Greatness He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in
2003.
'my favourite Winston Churchill biography of all, though, is
Geoffrey Best's 'Churchill: A Study of Greatness' which combines
all the biographical information with a real sense of what it felt
like to be English in Churchill's era.'
*Wall Street Journal*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
