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The Second World War: Volume I
Massive on the scale of death and power, elemental on the scale of good and evil, the Second World War was also the most complex and ramified experience mankind has ever pressed into a few years. As its effects now ripple out into time, the need grows to understand this experience in its many-sided and many-tierd simplicity. Who needs to understand it? Not only, as with the wars of former centuries, an elite of power and brains-but all men, the millions upon millions who have become movers and shakers in a democratic age. in this way is set a problem of communications more challenging than other in man's long story of imperfect comprehension of himself.
From 1948-1953, in six volumes entitled The second World war, Churchill first set down his story. Life is proud to have published in its weekly pages a series of memorable excerps that 1,750,000-word chronicle. Now, in this book, Life presents a new and longer abridgement in a new and meaningful form. Here is the essence of Churchills full story of war, together with an epilogue containing his verdict on what has happened since.
Here, too, as visual counterpart to Churchill's prose, are mor than 300 photographs and paintings of World War II,
, a harvest from the millions made by Allies and enemies. Churchills luninous prose needs no illumination, and the pictures, just as poignantly, can speak for themselves. But the two are joined with this thought: the light that beat upon Churchill's high place of decision could not reach-as camera brush reached-into the actual struggle on the roiled ground. The pictorial essays are glimpses of enduring meaning snatched from the confussion of the world-wide clash, and they form a compliment to the statesman's narrative.
From 1948-1953, in six volumes entitled The second World war, Churchill first set down his story. Life is proud to have published in its weekly pages a series of memorable excerps that 1,750,000-word chronicle. Now, in this book, Life presents a new and longer abridgement in a new and meaningful form. Here is the essence of Churchills full story of war, together with an epilogue containing his verdict on what has happened since.
Here, too, as visual counterpart to Churchill's prose, are mor than 300 photographs and paintings of World War II,
, a harvest from the millions made by Allies and enemies. Churchills luninous prose needs no illumination, and the pictures, just as poignantly, can speak for themselves. But the two are joined with this thought: the light that beat upon Churchill's high place of decision could not reach-as camera brush reached-into the actual struggle on the roiled ground. The pictorial essays are glimpses of enduring meaning snatched from the confussion of the world-wide clash, and they form a compliment to the statesman's narrative.
311 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1959
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Winston S. Churchill
1,404 books2,499 followersSir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, politician and writer, as prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955 led Great Britain, published several works, including
The Second World War
from 1948 to 1953, and then won the Nobel Prize for literature.
William Maxwell Aitken, first baron Beaverbrook, held many cabinet positions during the 1940s as a confidant of Churchill.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can), served the United Kingdom again. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill also served as an officer in the Army. This prolific author "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
Out of respect for Winston_Churchill, the well-known American author, Winston S. Churchill offered to use his middle initial as an author.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston...
William Maxwell Aitken, first baron Beaverbrook, held many cabinet positions during the 1940s as a confidant of Churchill.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can), served the United Kingdom again. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill also served as an officer in the Army. This prolific author "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
Out of respect for Winston_Churchill, the well-known American author, Winston S. Churchill offered to use his middle initial as an author.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston...
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September 27, 2024
I made it a little over halfway through this absolute tome recounting World War II by the British wartime PM Winston Churchill. 311 massive pages (the size of a printed newspaper in 2024) made even the inspired descriptions eventually become a chore. I think I’m learning I don’t enjoy as pure of war history as I thought I might.
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