Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill (English-Softcover)

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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill (English-Softcover)

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Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940.

With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man:

• he was an alcoholic
• an anachronism
• a visionary
• a racist
• a humanitarian
• was the most quotable man in the history of the English language
• a bore.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.