Churchill in the Trenches
Apps, Peter
ISBN 10: 1517752434 ISBN 13: 9781517752439
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2015
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November 1915: disgraced and stripped of high office, Winston Churchill heads to the trenches to fight. A quarter of a century before his "finest hour" in 1940, Britain's future Prime Minister faced a very different kind of crisis. As First Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the First World War, he found himself blamed for the catastrophic military fiasco of the Dardanelles. Thrown for the first time into the political wilderness, he decided to rejoin the British Army and take his place on the Western Front. The first standalone account of this period of his life published since the 1920s, CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES reconstructs his six months near the Belgian town of Ypres. It reveals he how he gradually won over the troops he commanded -- the tough but traumatised 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. And it tells the largely unknown story of how amid mud and squalor, one of the 20th century's most memorable characters became one of its greatest leaders.
About the Author: Peter Apps is global defence columnist at Reuters news. He is currently on sabbatical as executive director for the Project for Study of the 21st Century.
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Title: Churchill in the Trenches
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishi
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good