The Churchill War Papers: The Ever Widening War, Volume 3: 1941 [Hardcover]

Winston Churchill (Author), Martin Gilbert (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Churchill War Papers | Publication Date: January 2001

The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill's fascinating papers.

The year 1941 "opens in storm," Winston Churchill wrote to President Roosevelt on New Year's Day. This critical year of World War II is brought before us here in the letters, telegrams, diaries, memoranda, Cabinet minutes, and speeches of Churchill and his closest colleagues. Of particular interest to American readers will be Churchill's many messages to Roosevelt that year as the United States inches closer to an alliance with Britain, culminating in the Atlantic Charter in August and the American entry into the war four months later.

The War Papers put us at Churchill's side during some of the most tumultuous events in world history and offer an unparalleled view of his leadership qualities, his character, and his achievements. This is truly history as it was lived, in the war whose outcome formed the modern world.

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The legions of Churchill admirers will certainly, and voraciously, examine this excellently edited collection. (Booklist )

About the Author

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War I. Throughout his long and distinguished political career, his writing was prolific. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Sir Martin Gilbert, the distinguished official biographer of Churchill, is a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. His impressive body of work includes Churchill: A Life, The Holocaust, and The Second World War: A Complete History. In 1995, he was knighted for services to British history and international relations, and in 2009, he was appointed to the British Government’s Iraq War Inquiry. He lives in London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1820 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; First edition (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393019594
• ISBN-13: 978-0393019599
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,163,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably good!, March 4, 2011

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I own all three books,up to and including 1941.I can't say enough about this series.I have written to Sir Martin,and he needs another nine months to a year to publish the next volume (1942).So look towards the end of this year (2011) for it.For those who want an "insiders" view of the British struggles with Nazi Germany AND Japan,you must invest in this very important series! Ronald Gornischeff ,Agassiz,British Columbia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Churchill writes his way through history, January 30, 2007

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If you are a Churchill fan, you should get at least one volume of his "war papers" that Martin Gilbert has compiled. That way you can see the sheer volume of output that he generated, plus the sheer magnificence of the things Churchill grasped in his role, and that he communicated to those that he told to do something, those that he asked for help, those that he shared his empathy with, and, may I add, those of us many years later that get a better understanding of his role and his valor through reading his actual words written on a daily basis during the struggle of the war. I've seen where Churchill was born, and where his remains now are buried, but Churchill's words are still alive and available, through these books that Gilbert has been so useful in issuing. A note of caution--they are sometimes tedious reading, since there's over 1700 pages for 1941 alone (can you write almost 5 pages a day as Churchill did back then, for a whole year, way before there was a computer to instantly accept your keystrokes as you type?) An astounding range of material and an astounding range of human communication.