The Churchill Documents: Never surrender, May 1940-December 1940
"The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written during the first eight months of Churchill's premiership, during which time he surmounted more crises than many leaders face in an entire career: a fast-disintegrating ground war in Europe as the German blitzkreig overran the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and drove the British Army to retreat and evacuation at Dunkirk; the consolidation of German occupation in Norway and Denmark; an ongoing state of emergency at home as Britain struggled to modernize its army, navy and air forces at breakneck speed; and the pivotal weeks of the Battle of Britain - the "finest hour" when Britain stood fast against the unremitting onslaught of the German Luftwaffe"--Bloomsbury Collections.
Biography & AutobiographyHistoricalHistoryEuropeGreat Britain20th Century
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERHillsdale College Press
LENGTH1359
LANGUAGEEN
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.
The Churchill Documents: Never surrender, May 1940-December 1940
"The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written during the first eight months of Churchill's premiership, during which time he surmounted more crises than many leaders face in an entire career: a fast-disintegrating ground war in Europe as the German blitzkreig overran the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and drove the British Army to retreat and evacuation at Dunkirk; the consolidation of German occupation in Norway and Denmark; an ongoing state of emergency at home as Britain struggled to modernize its army, navy and air forces at breakneck speed; and the pivotal weeks of the Battle of Britain - the "finest hour" when Britain stood fast against the unremitting onslaught of the German Luftwaffe"--Bloomsbury Collections.
Biography & AutobiographyHistoricalHistoryEuropeGreat Britain20th CenturyWars & ConflictsWorld War II
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERHillsdale College Press
LENGTH1359
LANGUAGEEN
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.
