Churchill's Shadow An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Churchill's Shadow
An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Wydawnictwo: Bodley Head
Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9781847925749
Ilość stron: 628
Format: 15.0x23.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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Opis: Churchill's Shadow - Geoffrey Wheatcroft

In A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would cloud his political judgement. While Churchill's Shadow gives due credit to the achievements, it also reveals some spectacular failures; indeed, it appears that for every Finest Hour there were many more Gallipolis.

But this book goes beyond the reappraisal of a life and a career: it reveals that Churchill has cast a complex shadow over post-war British history and contemporary politics - from the 'Churchillian stance' of Tony Blair taking the country to war in Iraq to the delusion of a special relationship with the United States to the fateful belief in British exceptionalism: that the nation can once again stand alone in Europe.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft takes a radically different approach to other biographies and studies of Churchill, zooming in on crucial moments in his life that help us understand the man in his many contradictions. Churchill's Shadow both tells the story of his extraordinary life and the equally fascinating one of his legacy, focusing on how Churchill was viewed by contemporaries and those who came after.

As we struggle to work out who we are as a nation, how our complex legacies of war and empire shape our past and our present, we do that in the long shadow of Churchill. He set about writing his own myth during his lifetime and it is a myth - with all the delusions and hangovers myths bring - in whose grip we have been living in ever since.

Szczegóły: Churchill's Shadow - Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Tytuł: Churchill's Shadow
Podtytuł: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy
Autor: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Wydawnictwo: Bodley Head
ISBN: 9781847925749
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2021
Ilość stron: 628
Format: 15.0x23.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.965 kg