Churchill on the Home Front, 1900-1955

Informationen zum Autor Paul Addison, born 1943, is a historian based at the University of Edinburgh. His interests lie in the social and political history of twentieth-century Britain. The author of many books, his Churchill on the Home Front, 1900-1955 and Now the War is Over: A Social History of Britain, 1945-1951 are being reissued in Faber Finds. As is The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain which he co-edited with Jeremy Crang. His latest book, published by The Oxford University Press, is No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain. Klappentext Offers a chronicle of Churchill as a domestic figure rather than as the bulldog wartime leader! and subtle portraits of him as a politician. This book revises the view of Churchill as uninterested and out of his depth in domestic affairs! painting instead a nuanced picture of a canny parliamentarian. Zusammenfassung 'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.' David Cannadine, Observer'Magisterial.' Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman'A tour de force...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Paul Addison, ADDISON PAUL
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9780571296392
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29639-2
• Pages: 518
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 37 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Œuvre principale avant 1945; Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies; History, Politics & government, Second World War, Second World War, 1939-1945