Churchill: The Unruly GiantWinston Churchill is without question one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. Famous as the bulldog who rallied his wavering and war-weary compatriots to lead the Allied resistance to Hitler, he will forever stand as Britain's savior. Unceremoniously thrown out of office after the war, he was considered brilliant, occasionally impolitic, but morally principled by his friends, and fearsome, opportunistic, and an unruly troublemaker by his enemies. For much of his long political career he was the most detested and mistrusted man in British public life. Yet when he retired he was acclaimed as the ""greatest Englishman of all time". Norman Rose, the first historian to be granted access to the Churchill archives since the publication of Churchill's authorized biography, sets the record straight, combining a proper assessment of Churchill's achievements with a legitimate strand of revisionism. |
Contents
Becoming Educated | 21 |
In Pursuit of Fame | 39 |
Radical Politics | 79 |
The Biggest Thing that Has Ever Come My Way | 101 |
A Water Creature | 119 |
Eclipse | 151 |
Fighting Bolshevism | 169 |
Running the Empire | 187 |
Private Diversions | 237 |
An Independent Voice | 265 |
What Price Churchill? | 287 |
His Finest Hour | 309 |
Standing Alone | 333 |
Grand Strategy | 351 |
Advance Britannia | 369 |
The Great Commoner | 395 |
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