Churchill on the Home Front, 1900โ€“1955
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Churchill on the Home Front, 1900โ€“1955

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eBook - ePub

Churchill on the Home Front, 1900โ€“1955

About this book

'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.' David Cannadine, Observer

'Magisterial.' Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman

'A tour de force... A masterly chronicle of Churchill as a domestic figure rather than as the bulldog wartime leader, and one of the most subtle portraits of him as a politician. Addison revises the view of Churchill as uninterested and out of his depth in domestic affairs, painting instead a nuanced picture of a canny parliamentarian. Churchill changed parties twice but managed to accomplish the change, writes Addison, 'with exceptional dexterity', making it appear as if he were maintaining his principles while the parties changed theirs... Addison's most interesting assertion is that the rise of Hitler saved Churchill from drifting into right-wing irrelevance. Most impressively, Addison doesn't settle for easy classifications, admitting that 'Churchill... is a man of whom almost everything that can be said is true in part.'' Kirkus Review

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571296408
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Preface to the 1993 Edition
  8. Introduction
  9. Prologue
  10. 1: Peace, Retrenchment and Reform
  11. 2: The Cause of the Left-Out Millions
  12. 3: The Peers Versus the People
  13. 4: Two Faces of a Home Secretary
  14. 5: Undertones of War
  15. 6: The Impact of Labour
  16. 7: The Return to Gold
  17. 8: The General Strike and After
  18. 9: Right Turn, Left Turn
  19. 10: The War At Home
  20. 11: Post-War Plans
  21. 12: Set the People Free
  22. Conclusion
  23. Bibliography
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Index
  26. Plates
  27. Copyright