Churchill (En Inglés)
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Formato: Libro Físico
Titulo: Churchill 1940 - 1945 Under Friendly Fire ( En Inglés)
Editorial: Birlinn
Autor: Walter Reid
This “magnificent” account of Churchill’s battles with allies “is a meticulously researched history, but it is also a very moving human story” (The Herald).
In April 1945, Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!” When he became Prime Minister on May 10, 1940, Churchill was without allies.
Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain saved Britain from immediate defeat, but it was evident that Britain alone could never win the war. Churchill looked to America. He said that until Pearl Harbor, “no lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.” But would Roosevelt have entered the war if Pearl Harbor had not taken place? Until then, his actions were ambivalent, and even afterward, America’s policy was largely shaped by self-interest and its idea of what a post-war world should be like. Lend-Lease, for instance, was far from what Churchill publicly described as “the most unsordid act in the history of any nation,” but rather a tool of American policy.