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Hardcover In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War Book

ISBN: 0679457437

ISBN13: 9780679457435

In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

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Winston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the war's premier historian. From 1948-54, he published six volumes of memoirs. They secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict to this day. Drawing on the drafts of Churchill's manuscript as well as his correspondence from the period, David Reynolds masterfully reveals Churchill the author. Reynolds shows how the memoirs were censored by the British government to conceal state secrets, and how Churchill himself censored them to avoid offending current world leaders. This book illuminates an unjustly neglected period of Churchill's life-the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into the prime-ministership, and delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Rated 5 stars
I can't put this book down! History lovers and authors will to be hooked from the start.

This is a vivid behind-the-scenes look at WSC as he conducted WWII and the business of being an author. The introduction alone is superb and I'm just a few chapters in but the crisp and insightful writing continues. It reveals how a magnificent writer and orator can shape what we believe to the point of mythology. A new take on WWII and WSC emerges.

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Winston Churchill as Historian

This is a brilliant book! It is extremely well researched and written and tells a powerful and interesting story. "In Command of History" is the history of a series of books - Winston Churchill's monumental and authoritative "The Second World War", his six-volume narrative of Great Britain in World War II. "In Command of History" is also many other things, including a book about World War II, the Cold War,and Churchill himself...

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How Churchill Shaped History with his Pen

Winston Churchill liked to say that history would be kind to him, as he intended to write it. In Command of History tells the story of how he did this. David Reynolds, a Cambridge professor, has made a close examination of how Churchill wrote The Second World War. In doing so, he shows how Churchill used the books to place his own war-time actions in the best possible light and to further his future political agenda. Reynolds...

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Worth Reading

This is an intereting book, full of things I did not know about Churchill and his long history of WWII. I admire Churchill, and always will. Reynolds' book proves he was human. There are many aspects of the Churchill WWII history I had not realized. Among them are: 1) He did not write it all himself. Many sections were written by others. 2) He could have been accused of plagarism by Samuel Elliot Morrison. Sections dealing...

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When former President Clinton released his autobiography some months ago this was seen as a political and literary event. All this pales in comparison to when Winston Churchill published his 6 volumes of history on the Second World War from 1949 to 1954. These works are the subject of David Reynolds highly interesting book `In Command of History'. Unlike Clinton, Churchill was hardly retired; he was leader of the opposition...

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