xxii, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note
"Select bibliography": pages 293-299.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Churchill up and Churchill down: politics and the art of the impossible -- Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the wider world, 1939-1945 -- An affair of the heart: Churchill and France -- Rights, wrongs and rivalries: Britain and France in 1945 -- Churchill, Eden and Stalin -- Epic and tragedy: Britain and Poland, 1941-5 -- The bitter fruit of victory: Churchill and an unthinkable operation, 1945 -- The solitary pilgrimage: Churchill and the Russians, 1951-5 -- 'Historians are dangerous': Churchill, Chamberlain and some others.