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Churchill as War Leader Hardcover – January 1, 1991

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An important scholarly reassessment of Winston S. Churchill's wartime leadership.

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400 pages
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English
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Bloomsbury Publishing, Limited
Publication date

January 1, 1991
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0747507686
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978-0747507680
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing, Limited; 1st edition (January 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747507686
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747507680
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds

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Henri IV

A Useful Addition to the Vast Churchill Literature

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2018

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Mr. Lamb's book adds much useful analysis, both of Churchill's virtues and successes and of Churchill's faults and mistakes. He also adds information which wasn't available to the earlier historians, mainly because of government secrecy laws.A minor point: As far as I can see, Mr. Lamb's description of Sir Josiah Crosby as "a Jewish Francophile" is suspicious. Crosby's Jewishness is so totally irrelevant here that the reference suggests that Lamb was one of that special variety of priggish anti-semites associated with the British public schools. The way he sometimes uses the word "native" suggests a similar attitude.

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Craig Lawson

Informative but still pushes the Churchill legand

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2018

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I wish a non British author had written this book. He does admit Churchill made mistakes. He briefly mentions his drinking problem. He never mentions anything the Americans did, its all American mistakes yet they somehow keep winning and advancing. Presumably because of Churchill's brilliant advice. It was a quick read and I enjoyed it.

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Mr. J. M. Haines

Vital - if you want the actual truth

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This book 'Churchill as War Leader. Right or Wrong?', is a brilliant piece of work. It is also at times sickening to read; that's no reflection on the author (more editor in this instance), as he has simply brought us the thoughts, words and actions (indeed, heart mind and soul) of Winston Churchill as well as most other major players, from the pre-war years, through the Second World War itself, and the post-war years of enquiries, memoirs, and of course austerity, although the latter is not prominent.

Before we get to serious negatives concerning the man, let us mention loud and clear a very definite positive, as Richard Lamb also did in the book. If it were not for Winston Churchill standing firm and making his views clear on appeasement in the mid to late 1930s, and then being prepared to lead the nation in standing alone, then Britain would perhaps, right now, be some sort of colony or protectorate of Germany; perhaps even a Greater Germany. His burning patriotism, his self-belief in his country and himself were the roots of how the war was eventually won, not the direct reason for this when it came about, but Winnie's fired up defiant belly sowed the seeds early on, allowing Britain and her allies to win later on.

However . . .

Winston Churchill wavered mostly from average to poor when it came to strategy; sometimes it was his wild belligerence and impatience which were the cause of catastrophic decisions, sometimes his dear wish to retain an empire worthy of its name, and sometimes, just, quite simply, not knowing his stuff, and over-ruling others who certainly did know better. But, again as the author either directly stated, maybe implied in other ways, we must not think harshly of the man in relation to all of these instances, for the simple reason, no one on this planet is perfect, people, even a leader of a nation almost on its knees, and maybe because we were on our knees, are far from perfect. But this then leaves a residual number of key decisions which, in my opinion anyway, were quite simply wrong from a moral point of view, then - and now. The trouble is, this is of course highly subjective, some perhaps many perhaps all reading this now, may well disagree. I can't help that but nor would it change my mind.

For my money, he should have trusted the French to give up their fleet to the allies, he should have eased up on his early Middle Eastern campaign commanders, to some degree; he and BH should not have agreed with blanket bombing - yes, it happened to us, but two wrongs don't make a right, and he should not have agreed to the use of atomic weapons. In my opinion all is not automatically fair in love and war.

But, what he did do valiantly for his country and the free world, must, I think, be cited as redeeming factors in relation to the above negatives. We (the UK) needed the man at the helm, regardless of faults. He duly stepped up to the plate and saved the nation.

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neil

A well researched book with good insights,coloured the author's antipathy to the atomic bomb.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 30, 2020

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Very well researched and providing some good insjghts. Brings out the arrogance of De Gaulle and the inept handling of him by everyone. A bit too pro-French which was a failed state and too kind to Italy. Brings out the niaivete of the US regarding Stalin and the terrible loss to the post war world by Roosevelt's untimely death. Truman was a disaster as President, letting East Europe to to Stalin.

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A fair account.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 18, 2018

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This is a clear eyed fair account of Churchill ‘s Premiership during the war. The author does not hide the failures and misjudgments of which there were many but sets them in the context of Churchill ‘s inspirational leadership of the country. It’s clear that no-one else could have led Britain through the war from the time when the country stood alone to its share in the victory.

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All good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2018

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So much has been written about Churchill but I did learn a few things that I didn't know - not a bad read.

Timothy C Boyes

Churchhill

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 30, 2018

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Good real life story

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Well worth a read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 5, 2018

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Much has been written about Churchill and this is more, sometimes with insight (or is it hindsight?). One thing, he could be very right, as he was during the run up to WWII, and he could be very wrong as he was about Gallipoli in WWI (he paid for it), about Norway, in the early days of WWI, and his continuing but wrong idea that the the best way to attack the Nazis was through "the soft underbelly" of the Balkans and of Europe. It took the fact that the US was providing, by that time, the preponderance of forces for the European invasion to over ride his fixation with this. He also blundered in moving the desert forces to aid the Greeks when at the cost of a long delay in dealing with that issue. He could also be criticized, and was by the Americans, of having a fixation on the 'preservation of the British Empire" when it was already on an unstoppable wane because of the unwillingness of important parts (India) to stay in it, and the sheer force of international economics.

Another annoying, and sometimes fatal tendency of his was an attempt to micromanage activities. Notwithstanding, he was what the people of the free world needed at that time: and indomitable leader who would not accept the possibility of defeat. This dynamic and inspiring leadership was exactly what was needed after the insipid appeasement of the previous leader, Chamberlain. But it was not what the left-leaning populace wanted for a post victory Britain. But as the title suggests, the book is about him as a war leader, not as a peacetime prime minister or a pre-war harbinger.

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