1874-1965

Highlights Winston Churchill's youth as a war correspondent and army officer in Cuba, Asia, Africa, and London. Based on his reporting and personal letters.

The mayor of London and former Spectator editor challenges popular misconceptions to assess Churchill's enduring influence on the world, discussing the many contradictions of his life and his considerable political and military achievements.

A brief biography of British prime minister Winston Churchill.

Explains how to use critical theory to analyze the speeches of Winston Churchill.

At the beginning of World War II, Britain was at the forefront of the nuclear arms race. By the end of the war, Britain had fallen behind, largely due to Winston Churchill's reluctance to realize the atom bomb's strategic value. Because of this, Churchill ceded the nuclear initiative to America through neglect.

A collection of documents from public and private collections covering Churchill's participation in World War II as First Lord of the Admiralty through May, 1940, when he became Prime Minister.

Contains Churchill's own abridgement of his original six-volume history of World War II, its major events, decisions, and key figures.

On t.p.: An abridgement of the six volumes of The Second World War with an epilogue by the author on the postwar years written for this volume.