The View from Churchill: Travels in the Footsteps of Britain’s Last Lion
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback (BC)
- ISBN:
- 9781739265793
- Published:
- 11th Apr 2024
- Publisher:
- Marble Hill Publishers
- Dimensions:
- 144 pages -
- Illustrations:
- 14 b&w
Product Description
The View from Churchill
In this brilliant introduction, Matthew Mills Stevenson explores the significant moments and places that helped to shape Sir Winston Churchill’s remarkable career as a British politician, prime minister, soldier, and author.
- He visits visits Pretoria in South Africa where in 1899 the young journalist Churchill escaped from Boer captivity.
- He walks the battlefields of Gallipoli in Turkey to discover why Churchill’s bold military strategy failed.
- He rides his bicycle along the Western Front of World War I to visit Ploegsteert in Belgium, where Churchill commanded a battalion of the Scots Fusiliers.
- He visits Chartwell from where in the 1930s Churchill warned the world of the dangers to come from Hitler and Fascism.
- He travels to Yalta (yes, on his bicycle) to write about Churchill’s 1945 meetings with Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt.
The life of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is an extraordinary story of survival against the odds that ends in triumph.
- This summary of the key moments in Churchill’s life is the perfect introduction.
- Many of the illustrations, all from the Churchill Archive in Churchill College, Cambridge, have never been published before.