Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

A Brief Account of a Long Life

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICKA WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWarrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.
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Rubin, Gretchen
Titel
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
Uitgever
Random House Publishing Group
Jaar
2004
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
336
Gewicht
245 gr
EAN
9780812971446
Afmetingen
197 x 133 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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