The Second World War
Winston S. Churchill
  • Published: 4 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446496626
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1056
Categories:
Share…

The Second World War

Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

The abridgement of Churchill's classic six-volume history of the Second World War.

Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature.
  • Published: 4 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446496626
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1056
Categories:
Share…

About the author

Winston S. Churchill

Date: 2003-06-23
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and after several years in the army, became a newspaper correspondent and then an MP. After Chamberlain's defeat in May 1940, Churchill formed a coalition government and as Prime Minister led Britain through the Second World War. Defeated in the July 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition, and then became Prime Minister once more in 1951. In his last years he was often described as 'the greatest living Englishman'. He was knighted in 1953, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature the same year. His grandson, Winston S. Churchill (born 1940), has also been a writer, journalist and politician.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific writer, whose works include The Second World War and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.

Also by Winston S. Churchill

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Churchill in His Own Words
The Gathering Storm
Their Finest Hour
Triumph and Tragedy
Churchill: The Power of Words
The Boer War
See all

Praise for The Second World War

The Second World War dwarfs in scale the scanty memoirs of great figures of the past. The imagination boggles at the task of finding a just comparison... The events would have made the narrative great even if the writer had not had Churchill's gift of style. But the style matches the occasion

Times Literary Supplement

He is not writing history so much as reliving it - with its animosities still remembered, its wounds still smarting. This is a story told while the sweat and shock of mortal combat are still upon the teller

Evening Standard

That the acclamation has been even greater than might have been anticipated is the measure of his unique achievement - to have given the authority and the majesty of history to the stuff of his own times

Daily Telegraph