His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar. Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. Hastings rejects the traditional Churchill hagiography while still managing to capture what he calls Churchill’s “appetite for the fray.” Certain to be a classic, Winston’s War is a riveting profile of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, Churchill managed to exude a public confidence that brought the nation through the bitter war. His tactical inaptitude and departmental meddling won him few friends in the military, and by 1942, many were calling for him to cede operational control. Hastings shows how Churchill nearly squandered the miraculous escape of the British troops at Dunkirk and failed to address fundamental flaws in the British Army. But Churchill, Hastings reminds us, knew as well as anyone that the war would be dominated by others, and he managed his relationships with the other Allied leaders strategically, so as to maintain Britain’s influence and limit Stalin’s gains.Īt the same time, Churchill faced political peril at home, a situation for which he himself was largely to blame. Later, we see his significance ebb as the United States enters the war and the Soviets turn the tide on the Eastern Front. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before.īeginning in 1940, when popular demand elevated Churchill to the role of prime minister, and concluding with the end of the war, Hastings shows us Churchill at his most intrepid and essential, when, by sheer force of will, he kept Britain from collapsing in the face of what looked like certain defeat.
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Six years after Winston's birth, his brother Jack was born.A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a member of the British Parliament and his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American heiress. Winston Churchill was born on Novemat his grandfather's home, Blenheim Palace in Marlborough, England. Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world, ‘We are still masters of our fate. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this-a year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate, to all eyes but our own.
Notable Quote: "The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation.Children: Diana, Randolph, Marigold, Sarah, Mary.Awards and Honors: Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Order of Merit, Honorary Citizen of the United States, Nobel Prize in Literature.Published Works: Marlborough: His Life and Times, The Second World War, six volumes, A History of the English- Speaking Peoples, four volumes, The World Crisis, My Early Life.Education: Harrow School, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.Died: Januin Kensington, London, England.Parents: Lord Randolph Churchill, Jennie Jerome.Born: Novemin Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England.Also Known As: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
Known For: Prime minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
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