Winston S. Churchill: The Second World War, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Second World War
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- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 10/2013
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781472520876
- Artikelnummer:
- 2479382
- Gewicht:
- 1658 g
- Maße:
- 235 x 157 mm
- Stärke:
- 58 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 10.10.2013
- Serie:
- Bloomsbury Revelations
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with more authority than was possible in my earlier books. I do not describe it as a history, for that belongs to another generation. But I claim with confidence that it is a contribution to history which will be of service to the future." Sir Winston Churchill From the origins of the conflict, the rise of Hitler and the futile attempts at appeasement, through the darkest days of Britain's lone stand against the Axis powers, the great alliances with the USA and Soviet Russia and the triumphs of D Day and the eventual liberation of Europe to the terrible birth of the Cold War under the shadow of nuclear weaponry, this is Winston Churchill's landmark history of World War II. At once a personal account and a magisterial history, The Second World War remains Churchill's literary masterpiece.
Biografie
Winston Leonhard Spencer Churchill, geboren 1874 in Blenham Palace; 1900 als Konservativer Mitglied des Unterhauses, ab 1906 mehrfach Minister; ab Mai 1940 Premierminister. Zusammen mit Th. Roosevelt entwarf und verkündete er 1941 die "Atlantic-Charta". 1953 wurde Churchill geadelt, im selben Jahr erhielt er für sein historisches und literarisches Werk den Literaturnobelpreis und 1956 den Karlspreis. Er starb 1965.