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Warren Dockter analyses the future Prime Minister's experiences of the East, including his work as Colonial Under-Secretary in the early 1900s, his relations with the Ottomans and conduct during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-16, his arguments with David Lloyd- George over Turkey, and his pragmatic support of Syria and Saudi Arabia during World War II.Challenging the popular depiction of Churchill as an ignorant imperialist when it came to the Middle East, Dockter suggests that his policy making was often more informed and relatively progressive when compared to the Orientalist prejudices of many of his contemporaries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49674597302545,"sku":"GOR008360490","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51372389957905,"sku":"GOR011699894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780768184.jpg?v=1751121848"},{"product_id":"churchill-and-the-islamic-world-book-warren-dockter-9781788319249","title":"Churchill and the Islamic World","description":"Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. 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The settlement they reached, later referred to by Churchill as ‘the Iron Curtain’, would utterly change the course of the twentieth century, creating a world of two competing superpowers, which led to the so-called Cold War.  One question is vital to understanding the course of that century – why did Winston Churchill and the allies allow Russia to become a dominant superpower, free to threaten the USA and the Western World for the next 40 years?   Foremost Churchill scholar Warren Dockter looks afresh at Churchill’s relationship with Russia. He investigates the great man’s Victorian education and his inheritance of his father’s politics, which dominated his worldview with respect to Russia.   This is a wide-ranging biography of Churchill's upbringing and the events that have shaped him, woven around his view of the world and of Russia – his great enemy and, as Dockter argues, in many ways the key player in his international political life. It draws on a wealth of previously neglected sources such as the oral histories at Churchill Archives, the Lord Moran Papers, the Diaries of Archibald Clark-Kerr – the British Ambassador to Russia, the Alexander MacCallum Scott diary and Evelyn Shuckburgh’s full diary.  This book uncovers a new side to the Churchill story that has some great contemporary relevance, as the 'Russia problem' promises to define politics over the next decade.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51632200581393,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51632200778001,"sku":"NGR9781399408080","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1399408089.jpg?v=1750890581"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-warren-dockter.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}