The Churchill War Papers: At the Admirality - Hardcover

Winston Churchill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393035220 ISBN 13: 9780393035223

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Synopsis

"A major addition to the Churchill literature."―Publishers Weekly

This is truly history as it was lived, in the war whose outcome formed the modern world.

About this title

About the Author:

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War I. Throughout his long and distinguished political career, his writing was prolific. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Sir Martin Gilbert, the distinguished official biographer of Churchill, is a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. His impressive body of work includes Churchill: A Life, The Holocaust, and The Second World War: A Complete History. In 1995, he was knighted for services to British history and international relations, and in 2009, he was appointed to the British Government’s Iraq War Inquiry. He lives in London.

From Library Journal:

This volume of Churchill's war papers, the first to be published in ten years, covers the entire period of his term as First Lord of the Admiralty. As such, Churchill was at the center of British war policy and responsible for supervising the Royal Navy's war effort. Under the expert hand of editor Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, the problems, uncertainties, and solutions of Britain's response to Germany's invasion of Poland come to life. Profusely footnoted, this offers a proper mix of official and private correspondence, cabinet minutes, and colleagues' recollections. Every aspect of Britain's gearing up for war is included here, from construction designs for mock warships to the increase in soldiers' rations. This volume culminates in the disastrous British response to Hitler's invasion of Norway, which nearly ousted the First Sea Lord from office. Instead, the German invasion of Holland and France catapulted him to prime minister. Strongly recommended.
- David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393035220
• ISBN 13: 9780393035223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1400
• Editor: Martin Gilbert