Winston S. Churchill, volume VII: the road to victory - Hardcover

GILBERT, MARTIN.

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9780434130177: Winston S. Churchill, volume VII: the road to victory

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ISBN 10: 0434130176 ISBN 13: 9780434130177

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., 1986

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Volume 7 of Martin Gilbert's magisterial biography of Winston Churchill takes the reader from the moment of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the bittersweet triumph of VE Day, May 8, 1945. The book charts Churchill's course through the storms and suspicions of Anglo-American and Anglo-Soviet relations as well as the challenges of clashing priorities of other allies such as Charles DeGaulle and his compatriots, Tito and the Yugoslavs, the Greek communists and monarchists, and the Polish government in exile and the Soviet controlled "Lublin" Poles. Gilbert has used all the documents relied on in prior volumes plus Churchill's daily engagement diaries and the visitors' books at 10 Downing Street and Chequers to trace the flood of individuals who came to see Churchill at each critical moment of the war. The result is a vivid and compelling portrait of a man of enormous capacity struggling to achieve a series of almost impossible tasks. 1417 pages.

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