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A common way of bringing sceptics back into line is to quote Churchill at them to the effect that it is the worst system going except for all the alternatives. "The men who shed their blood were defending our democratic rights" opines the Daily Express on June 8th in celebration of D Day; and it is Winston Churchill who has gone down in history as the man who "saved democracy". How grateful should we really be? At what cost did Britain save democracy?

Given that it was Churchill whose single-mindedness kept Britain on the "no surrender" course, when others derisively referred to as "appeasers", would have welcomed a negotiated peace, we need to know what "made him tick". What was Churchill fighting for? Whom was Churchill fighting for? Democracy? Freedom? Britain? This book does not attempt to answer these questions directly but it helps us towards an understanding of the possible answers by showing us what kind of a man Churchill phone number list was and the background to his rise to power. At the same time we are given a very readable (also very depressing) account of Churchill's brilliant, if eccentric and sometimes flawed management of the war, a war which Mr. Irving strongly believes was, as far as Britain and Germany were concerned, more a vendetta of Churchill's against the nazis than anything else, and even this vendetta was a pretext rather than a cause.

Long before Munich or Prague or Dantsic. It was a war which he not only longed for, but when he got it, he was determined to persue to the bitter end heedless of cost. Mr. Irving gives us a lively account of Churchill's anti-German machinations before war broke out and his subsequent war leadership up to the time that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were fighting on Britain's side and the "tide had turned". What emerges is a fascinating psychological portrait of a man who is usually described glibly as just "the great war leader". But from this account we see that Churchill's military strategy was not always felicitious, indeed it was often flawed by prejudice and stubborness. But he knew what he wanted: victory over Germany and the total destruction of national-socialism, even if that meant a war in which millions upon millions had to die, still for him it was worth it in order to defeat the "most monstrous tyranny the world had ever known".