Churchill, Master и Commander. Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 Bloomsbury (370062859)

От его earliest days Winston Churchill був extreme risk taker and he carried this in adulthood. Всегда это было нескончаемо, как Britain's greatest wartime leader and politician. Deep down though, he was foremost a warlord. Только как его Stalin, и его архиепископия Хитлера и Муссолини, Churchill не может помочь ему и понять, что человек directing the strategic conduct of World War II. Для того, чтобы попасть или ждать, он был осведомлен о политическом мастере и политике. Почти как его wartime contemporaries, he had a habit of not heeding the advice of его generals. Результаты этих были disasters в Norway, North Africa, Greece and Crete during 1940–41. Его fruitless Dodecanese campaign в 1943 also ended in defeat. Churchill's pig-headedness over supporting Italian campaign in defiance of Riviera landings culminated in him threatening to resign and bring down the British Government. Yet on occasions he got it just right: his refusal to surrender in 1940, British milacle in Dunkirk and victory in the Bottle of Britain, showed that he was much-needed decisive leader. Nor did he thy away from difficult decisions, так як destruction of French Fleet prevent it falling in German hands and his subsequent war against Vichy France. В этой увлекательной новой knihe, призванной историей антоны тюкер-Jones explores record Winston Churchill як military commander, assessing how military experiences of formative years shaped him for difficult military decisions he took in office. Эта kniha assesses his choices в некоторых most controversial and high-profile campaigns of World War II, и как в high office его решении Making was both right and wrong. > «Masterful research, impeccable detail, с beautifully flowing narrative > из которых Churchill himself would have been proud.» — Professor Peter > Caddick-Adams