The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill

The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm



The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm



The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill ebook
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Winston Churchill may slowly be being forgotten as one of the twentieth century's most prolific writers. Those who learn about him today, if they hear his name at all, usually discover that he was a British Prime Minister, and little more. Even the fact that it was he who put the War Cabinet together in 1940, which managed to hold out both strategically and psychologically against Hitler, is slowly fading. "We will fight them on the beaches..." is slowly becoming merged with the sounds of popular music, and the original sense being lost. Whether that is a good thing or not, I hardly know. Yet there was so much more to this long-lived British soldier, journalist, novelist, parliamentarian, artist, statesman and historian, than mere good generalship.In "The Gathering Storm," we are evidently preparing for the disaster of 1939. Churchill was not in office during those years, and indeed, although it is probably becoming a more obscure fact than ever as time goes on, he was something of a political pariah. The trend of British politics in the thirties, and to some extent within the influential part of British society, was toward pacifism and a consequent reduction in armaments and defence expenditure. Churchill was on the outside, voicing his concern from time to time as a private Member of Parliament, but unable to make himself heard. So this is the background to the book, a time of political intrigue at the international level, and of unwillingness to face up to the facts of the rise of fascism, in Britain. Perhaps it may be said, in fairness, that until Czechoslovakia turned ugly, war with Germany was not to be thought of, for all sorts of reasons. The decisions that were perhaps ill made in those dying days at the end of the 30s, were nevertheless of the tallest order. It is perhaps true that Churchill is unable to give us a completely unbiased version of events. However, in the main he sticks to history and what is coloured in the text is probably what is left out rather than anything reported as fact. One of the interesting snippets in the book (and of course, there are many), is the fact that Churchill, while still out of office, was invited to meet Hitler in the Rhineland in 1937, declined to do so, and subsequently never met him at all. His son Randolph, on the other hand, did meet him in Berlin in the 30s.This is history, first and foremost, and as it intends to cover the war and not just Churchill's part in it, it strays into all sorts of odd corners of international foreign policy. Yet none of it is tedious in the hands of such a gifted writer, and when it becomes a question of the central facts touching upon the lives of so many millions, this point of view is a critical one indeed.

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