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The Hinge Of Fate (The Second World War) Paperback – May 9, 1986

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The British prime minister's dramatic account of how the Allies turned the tide of World War II.

In the first half of the book, Winston Churchill describes the fearful period in which the Germans threaten to overwhelm the Red Army, Rommel dominates the war in the desert, and Singapore falls to the Japanese. In the span of just a few months, the Allies begin to turn the tide, achieving decisive victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, and repulsing the Germans at Stalingrad. As confidence builds, the Allies begin to gain ground against the Axis powers.

This is the fourth in the six-volume account of World War II told from the unique viewpoint of the man who led his nation in the fight against tyranny. The series is enriched with extensive primary sources, as we are presented with not only Churchill’s retrospective analysis of the war, but also memos, letters, orders, speeches, and telegrams, day-by-day accounts of reactions as the drama intensifies. Throughout these volumes, we listen as strategies and counterstrategies unfold in response to Hitler’s conquest of Europe, planned invasion of England, and assault on Russia, in a mesmerizing account of the crucial decisions made as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

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May 9, 1986
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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Paperbacks; Reissue edition (May 9, 1986)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 952 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0395410584
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395410585
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.69 x 7.75 inches

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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called 'the greatest Briton'. An international statesman, orator, biographer, historian, author and Nobel Prize winner, his works remain in print with the world's leading publishers.

Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, Winston spent several years in the army before becoming a newspaper correspondent and then an MP. His cabinet positions included First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and later Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 and for five years led Britain though its 'finest hour'. Defeated in the July 1945 election, he was Leader of the Opposition until re-elected Prime Minister in 1951. He was knighted in 1953, the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He stepped down as Prime Minister in 1955 and remained an MP until 1964.

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Great book and reminder of exactly why we need to protect our democracy.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

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This is a most informative and interesting book. Winston Churchill has a superb command of the English language. His writing is great. Many people do not have any idea of the perils the world faced in 1942 and 1943.

Ralph S. Gardner II

Memorable account by one of the greatest leaders of WW2

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2020

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I bought the entire 6-volume kindle set. This is volume 3. Like the others, this is a moment-by-moment recap of events the author personally saw and the war he personally managed. Accounts by other non-participant authors may perhaps be more omniscient and 'balanced' - but nothing matches Churchill's "I was there and here is what I did" viewpoint. His writing is superb, and he includes many of his speeches and documents. (Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour" is unmatched in this respect.) Reading his rhetoric 55 years after his death, and 80 years after he uttered those historic speeches, is unforgettable.

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You get what you pay for

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2015

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This book is Volume 4 of Sir Winston Churchill's history of World War Two. The narrative is all from Churchill's viewpoint and shaped by his personal opinion. All in all, it is an excellent account of the war as he saw it. Since he was the British Head of Government as well as Defence Minister during most of the war, his was a unique perspective.
It is unfortunate that the Kindle edition of the book was plagued with typos and poor presentation. The typographical errors were no doubt due to the use of optical character readers with no one proof-reading the resulting electronic text. Worse than that, Churchill's many maps were in such a tiny size that many were practically unreadable.
The Kindle format is excellent for text documents. Novels are very pleasant and easy to read. Maps and charts work well only if they are arranged so that they can be read as single pages and take full advantage of the Kindle screen's dimensions. One does not have the ability to zoom in on a map the way one can with a PDF book.
In summary, the book is excellent but the presentation is mediocre. This was the trade-off I got by buying a Kindle book for less than half the price of a hardback. A Kindle book is much more portable than a print copy, and there are advantages to being able to carry a good-sized library with me. On the other hand, Churchill's books are not terribly easy to read in Kindle format. No doubt if Amazon had put more effort into proof-reading, editing, and making the maps more readable, the Kindle book would have cost several dollars more. I probably would have been willing to pay for the advantage of combined portability and quality.
So: Five stars for the book itself, five stars for the convenience of having it in electronic format, and two stars for the very poor presentation and bad map readability. Overall four stars.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023

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All the books in this series are outstanding.

Churchill- A study in his genius for leadership

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012

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I recommend Churchill's THE HINGE OF FATE to all history buffs as well as those interested in leadership. I've read the first 2 books in this collection and plan to read all 6 books. It's stunning to read the names of cities that are in the news today: Benghazi, Cairo, Basra, Mosul, Baghdad, etc. Protecting the Middle East oil supply and its shipping routes drove battles, just like today. Learning about the decisions of Churchill and Roosevelt is exciting. Reading the German communications about events gives insights into WWII from the Axis side.

Churchill was a genius. No doubt about it. He was the right man at the right time to serve as both Prime Minister as well as Minister of Defense. His enduring optimism in the face of war's harsh realities kept hope alive in hearts and minds of Brits sitting on their small island and of Americans gearing up for war, the draft, and rationing.

History does repeat itself. This entire series also helps me learn about the world my dad lived and fought in and the world my mom endured during his absence. What if there had been a 24-hour news cycle then? Would have been a blessing in disguise or a curse? Could Churchill and Roosevelt have been able to make the needed decisions is such a media saturated environment?

Losing, but knowing victory is coming

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2007

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As Hinge fo Fate opens in early 1942, The Japanese had just destroyed most of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor; Japan was about to drive Britain from Southeast Asia and (perhaps) invade Australia; German and Italian troops under Romel were about to invade Egypt, and Stalin's Russia was under attack by the German Army, which had completed itsoccupation of virtually all of Europe, from France to Norway, Lithuania to Greece. Parliament was calling for Churchill's head. This was a true world war (contrast, Bush's War on Terror)--and Britain was losing.

Churchill's reaction--the entry of America and Russia into the war as Britain's allies guaranteed that the Allies would ultimately win--Britain, US, and USSR simply had greater resources than Germany, Japan and Italy. Thus it was only a matter of time.

The attack by Parliament was a sign of a healthy, strong democracy--as Churchill said, how many countries had strong enough political institutions to allow this type of no holds barred debate while under attack, and still survive.

And survive they did. The first half of Hinge of Fate describes a series of worldwide disasters, unbroken by a single significant Allied victory. Then came the legendary battle of Alamein--where General Montgomery beat Rommel, the Allied landing on the north coast of Africa, the US Naval victories at Midway and in the Coral Sea, and Russia's effective resistance against the German Army at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus Mountains.

By the end of 1942, it was not yet clear that tha tAllies would win, but they looked a whole lot batter than they did at the beginning. Along the way, Churchill gives us his impressions of the politics involved--both internal British, within the larger Commonwealth, among the Allies--and particularly his relationship and struggles with Stalin--and the tension between the British (focused on Europe) and the Americans (pushing for more resources to fight the Japanese in the Pacific).

Hinge of Fate continues Churchill's inimitable style, mixing contemporaneous, detailed, memos, telegrams, letters, and directives he wrote, the responses he received, connected by new (in 1950) commentary by Churchill himself. This makes no pretesne at being an "objective" or multi-focused history of WWII. It is clearly, and exclusively, the war from Churchill's unique perspective. But, what a perspective!

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Abhijit kumar Biswas

Poor quality of printing and page.

Reviewed in India on July 9, 2020

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Excellent work by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill one of iconic figures of world history. But printing quality of this book is pathetic and so is the quality of paper. I expected a better quality of work from penguin with hefty price they are charging for this book.

Dad for 4 boys

From the mouth of the personification of leadership

Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2018

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Although slanted from a British perspective, these are the words from the man who saw and was there for all.

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luigi turrio

Together with Cesar and Thucydides: history, told by one who makes and understands it

Reviewed in Italy on November 19, 2018

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I admit: the moment I bought "the gathering storm" (Vol 1) I still held the prejudice that the Literature Nobel prize was awarded to the former British prime minister for winning the war. After few pages and, even more deeply, in the following three months till after finishing "Triumph and tragedy" (vol 6), I felt I was reading something extraordinaire and now I regret that the tale is finished. It reads as a thriller, a very complicated one, and it's unbelievable that a book made mostly by official letters and directives can catch your attention so completely. The sense of that historical period is given with the fresh feelings of the precise moments things happened but always with a mind that could read the real meaning of events, with an accurate analysis of the past ones and a lucid forecast of the ones to come. Together, you can catch the spirit of a first class politician, a statesman, capable of operating with whatever scanty material he has, of taking difficult decisions implying sometimes sacrifices of immense gravity in view of the least damage for his people. As I wrote in the title: when the tale of history is told by one who makes and understands it, then it lasts forever

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Dr. Helmut K. Ramminger

Sehr informativ

Reviewed in Germany on October 31, 2015

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Die von Churchill veröffentlichten Dokumente geben einen erstklassigen Einblick in das Geschehen während des 2. Weltkrieges.
Natürlich muß man berücksichtigen, daß Churchill für viele Entscheidungen selbst verantwortlich war, und daher die Erzählung wohl ein wenig gefärbt ist.
Was in Churchills Büchern über diesen Krieg aber deutlich wird: Hitler war dran und drauf ganz Europa, Afrika und den Nahen Osten zu unterjochen, und ohne das Eingreifen Amerikas wäre es ihm wohl gelungen.

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Benghiman

A must have for everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2013

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I have read all the six volumes which are a really "good read". Better than a good read - now I want to re-read them all. WSC was an amazing man, but a "magnetic" author. As each story unfolds - especially the French side - you can see the characters, the personalities that WSC had to deal with. The country that claims to have "won the war" darned near lost it for us!!!

How we won that war is a miracle. Without him we would never have had a chance.

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