The Second World War
1948Personal narratives, BritishBritish Personal narrativesGreat BritainMilitary leadershipWorld War, 1939-1945
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AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in the world.
AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in the world.
NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.
LOOKING back upon the unceasing tumult of the war, I cannot recall any period when its stresses and the onset of so many problems all at once or in rapid succession bore more directly on me and my colleagues than the first half of 1941.
About this book
Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It is no wonder that when it was announced that he would write the history of the Second World War, there arose throughout the world an interest and excitement caused by no other publication of this century. The six volumes of The Second World War fulfilled the highest expectations with which they were awaited. But the great length of the work and its necessary cost has prevented many thousands from reading and owning this great history. Now the heart of the work appears in one volume. The abbreviation has been made with the utmost skill, resulting in a unified, dramatic story of the world's greatest ordeal. Perhaps the glory of Sir Winston's prose is even heigtened by the omission of details necessary for the record but of less interest to the general reader. Memoirs of the Second World War will be read and treasured by a vast number of people who do not yet know this drama written imperishably by one of its greatest actors. - Jacket flap.
Themes & subjects
Personal narratives, BritishBritish Personal narrativesGreat BritainMilitary leadershipWorld War, 1939-1945Command of troops
First published 1948Characters & people
Setting
Great BritainEurope1918-1945
About the author
Winston S. Churchill
30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an honorary citizen of the United States. During his life, there was also a popular American author named [Winston Churchill](https://openlibrary.org/…
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