Churchill Defiant
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“The fighting spirit of Winston Churchill comes alive in Barbara Leaming’s brutal chronicle of the great man’s second premiership…In Churchill Defiant we learn of our hero’s final campaign, his four-year quest for a historic parley with the Soviets. But this ‘old man in a hurry’ could not defeat age itself. That he was proved human, after all, made the grand achievements of his life—saving Britain in its ‘finest hour’ and the honor of the century, simply being Winston Churchill—all the more stunning.”
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews
New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life.
In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and the bare-knuckled political and personal battles that ensued. Her ground-breaking biography Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, was the first to detail Churchill's extraordinary influence on Kennedy's thinking. Now in Churchill Defiant, Leaming gives us a vivid and compelling narrative that sheds fresh light on both the human dimension of Winston Churchill and on the struggles and achievements of his final years. At last, in Leaming's eloquent account, we understand the tangled web of personal relationships and rivalries, the intricate interplay of past and present, the looming sense of history that makes the story of these years as fascinating as anything in the extraordinary century-long saga of Winston Churchill's life.
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