Winston Churchill in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Winston Churchill in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780521845908

ISBN-10: 0521845904

ISBN-13: 9780521845908

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Cannadine, Roland Quinault

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For many people throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century: the saviour of his country and a staunch defender of democracy in the face of totalitarianism. By writing history, as well as by making it, Churchill influenced our whole view of the twentieth century and his role in it. But how does he look now, in a new century, with a different agenda and when few can remember him? This book confronts and addresses this question; partly by including the reminiscences and recollections of four people who still vividly remember Churchill (Tony Benn, Lord Carrington, Lord Deedes and Lady Soames); but primarily by bringing…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue: Churchill from Memory to History



Churchill's Three Careers



Churchill and Democracy



Churchill and the Trade Unions



Churchill and the Conservative



Churchill and the British Monarchy



Churchill and The Gathering Storm



Churchill and the American Alliance



Churchill and the Two 'Evil Empires'



Churchill and the East-West Detente



Churchill and the Premiership



Epilogue: Churchill Remembered