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Eminent Churchillians by Andrew Roberts
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Andrew Roberts, author of the much-acclaimed
biography of Churchill's first Foreign |
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Secretary, Lord Halifax - tackles six aspects of
Churchilliana and uncovers a plethora of |
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disturbing facts about wartime and postwar Britain. |
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Adopting the technique Lytton Strachey pioneered in
Eminent Victorians, Roberts |
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produces a new and often uncomfortable portrait of
those who, once they were certain |
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Churchill was in the
ascendant, hitched themselves to his star and then attempted to |
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guide it for their own political ends |
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Roberts' revelations include : |
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- The case for the impeachment of Lord Mountbatten |
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- The Nazi sympathies of Sir Arthur Bryant, hitherto
considered a 'patriotic' historian |
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- The British Establishment's doubt and
half-heartedness about Churchill's role after |
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Dunkirk |
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- The appeasement of the trade unions in Churchill's
Indian summer |
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- The inside story of black immigration in the early
1950s |
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- The anti-Churchill stance adopted by the royal
family in 1940 |
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By uncovering these often uncomfortable truths about
the Churchillian era Roberts offers |
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an original and often disturbing analysis of
Britain's postwar decline and present day |
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predicament. Eminent Churchillians is a
masterly and original contribution to Britain's |
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recent history |
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