Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeedsusing poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the authors fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding himthe popular and the obscureto reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personasone that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.

Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.; Classification: BG; Weight: 570 g; Dimensions: 179 x 251 x 23

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