The World Crisis, Vol. 2 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis

The World Crisis, Vol. 2 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection)

This second volume in Churchillâ€™s five-volume series The World Crisis is by far the most personalâ€”dealing frankly with Churchillâ€™s failures as a military leader and his ultimately unsuccessful battle to break the European deadlock.

After the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles, Winston Churchill served for several months as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. During this time, he served on one of the most violent stretches of the front lines, making a total of 36 courageous expeditions into No Manâ€™s Land.

Here, Churchill provides an unflinching narrative of a particularly challenging time in World War I and in his own careerâ€”providing fascinating insight into the mental and psychological challenges faced by a major historical leader.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sir Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 â€œfor his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.â€
Over a 64-year span, Churchill published over 40 books, many multi-volume definitive accounts of historical events to which he was a witness and participant. All are beautifully written and as accessible and relevant today as when first published.
During his fifty-year political career, Churchill served twice as Prime Minister in addition to other prominent positionsâ€”including President of the Board of Trade, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Home Secretary. In the 1930s, Churchill was one of the first to recognize the danger of the rising Nazi power in Germany and to campaign for rearmament in Britain. His leadership and inspired broadcasts and speeches during World War II helped strengthen British resistance to Adolf Hitlerâ€”and played an important part in the Alliesâ€™ eventual triumph.
One of the most inspiring wartime leaders of modern history, Churchill was also an orator, a historian, a journalist, and an artist. All of these aspects of Churchill are fully represented in this collection of his works.
ABOUT THE SERIES

Rarely are events that change the world documented by a key participant, someone who was instrumental in making the military and political decisions that would shape the outcome of a world war. Winston Churchillâ€™s The World Crisis provides the ultimate insider accountâ€”of a war intended to end all wars, a war so violent it almost undid the West altogether.

The World Crisis provides a sweeping narrative of the events of World War I that is both gripping and historically detailedâ€”based on thousands of private letters and memos written to and by Churchill at the time. Nowhere else is the effect of this war so well conveyed by an eyewitness and historianâ€”and so compellingly written.

Country	USA
Author	Winston S. Churchill
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780795331459
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	RosettaBooks
Manufacturer	RosettaBooks
NumberOfPages	880
PublicationDate	2013-09-23
Publisher	RosettaBooks
ReleaseDate	2013-09-23
Studio	RosettaBooks

The World Crisis, Vol. 2 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection)

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