Churchill/the Gathering Storm
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...Britain, played a pivotal role in the cataclysmic conflict known as World War II. After the war, Churchill focused on his considerable literary talent and penned a six volume, comprehensive history of the WWII, offering insights and observations that could only come from a world leader during this period. The Gathering Storm is the first volume in the series and describes the events leading up to the war and then the initial battles, which takes this book’s account of the war to May 10, 1940.
` The Gathering Storm is divided into two sections. Book I, entitled “From War to War, 1919-1939,” describes Churchill’s ongoing struggle to encourage Britain to arm and concentrate on military preparedness during the 1930s. The opening chapter is entitled “The Follies of the Victors, 1919-1929” and, as this title suggests, it relates the numerous errors in judgment and justice that were made by the victorious Allies after World War I. Churchill begins by conjuring the political and social atmosphere of that era, which was...
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