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John Howes said:
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Excellently researched through diaries, cabinet minutes, ministerial memoranda, revealing Churchill's vulnerability at crucial times in the war, and - surprisingly for me - the possibility that Stafford Cripps or Lord Beaverbrook could have replaced
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"Finished it awhile back - useful resumé of Cabinet tensions in WWII when one would have thought unity was maintained. Bevin a towering figure, Morrison devious, Attlee hugely competent without fuss, Stafford Cripps a doubtful entity and, amazingly, Beaverbrook scheming to usurp Churchill with some support from colleagues." — Oct 20, 2020 08:54AM
"Finished it awhile back - useful resumé of Cabinet tensions in WWII when one would have thought unity was maintained. Bevin a towering figure, Morrison devious, Attlee hugely competent without fuss, Stafford Cripps a doubtful entity and, amazingly, Beaverbrook scheming to usurp Churchill with some support from colleagues." — Oct 20, 2020 08:54AM
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