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Winston Churchill at The Telegraph

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When Winston Churchill was asked by George VI to take the reins pf power in May 1940 he later recalled that I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.rnrnOur relationship with Greatest Briton is similarly framed by this same sense of an inevitable fare. It is difficult, from our perspective, to disentangle the man from the legend that tas accumulated around him.rnrnThe Telegraph had unquwly close connection with Churchill, following every stage of his career: from his early days as a war correspondent for the paper, through his time in the political wilderness, the turbulent war years and his astoundingly energetic life as an elder statesman. Collected here, for the first time, is the best reportage on this most fascinating of men. Unencumbered by his mythic status, there is praise and blame in equal measure: findinf space for both dramatic accounts of his wartime premiership and affectionate reports on the animals living at Chartwell, his country estate.rnrnThe Telegraph was also a happy home for Chuchill the journalist, and fetured within are many pieces written in his unmistakeable prose - he was as comfortable issuing stern jeremialds about the dangers of socialism, or the threat of Hitler's Germany, as he was enthusing about painting.rnrnRestoring much of the urgency and freshness to the life of this extraordinary man, Winston Churhill at The Telegraph is a celebration of an intimate relationship that lasted over sixty years and shows Winston Churchill in all his paradoxical glory.rnrn

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923.1 DOC w

Publisher

London : Aurum Press Ltd.., 2015

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292 p.: ill.; 23 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-78131-452-4

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Heads of State Biography/Biografi Kepala

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2015

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biography

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