In The Footsteps Of Churchill

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: BBC Books
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 351 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Churchills death, renowned historian Richard Holmes brings his unparalleled knowledge of the military together with his eye for illuminating detail to his biography of one of Britains greatest leaders. Although much has been written on Churchills management of Britain through the crisis years of the Second World War, In the Footsteps of Churchill takes the reader back to the explosive colour of his early life to discover the influences that shaped the man. Holmes examines how the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War, for example cost thousands of Allied lives when it emerged during his planning of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. From the beginning, we are immersed in the colourful detail and atmosphere of Churchills world. From his aristocratic birth to a syphilitic father and a famously attractive mother, through Churchills struggles at school and his adventures as a foreign correspondent in Rajasthan, Churchills extraordinary character is illuminated by Holmess portrait of a flawed but brilliant and humane man.

ISBN: 9780563521761