Churchill and Empire

Churchill and Empire
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 706
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ISBN-10 : 9781605985992
ISBN-13 : 1605985996
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Book Synopsis Churchill and Empire by : Lawrence James

Download or read book Churchill and Empire written by Lawrence James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late nineteenth century serving in conflicts in India, South Africa, and the Sudan, his attitude toward the Empire was the Victorian paternalistic approach—at once responsible and superior. Conscious even then of his political career ahead, Churchill found himself reluctantly supporting British atrocities and held what many would regard today as prejudiced views, in that he felt that some nationalities were superior to others, his (some might say obsequious) relationship with America reflected that view. This outmoded attitude was one of the reasons the British voters rejected him after a Second World War in which he had led the country brilliantly. His attitude remained decidedly old-fashioned in a world that was shaping up very differently. This ground-breaking volume reveals the many facets of Churchill’s personality: a visionary leader with a truly Victorian attitude toward the British Empire.


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