CHURCHILL:A Study in Greatness

CHURCHILL:A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best

This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.

'my favourite Winston Churchill biography of all, though, is Geoffrey Best's 'Churchill: A Study of Greatness' which combines all the biographical information with a real sense of what it felt like to be English in Churchill's era' -- Rudolph Giukiani * Wall Street Journal *

Geoffrey Best began his academic life in Cambridge, as undergraduate and research student at Trinity College and then as a History Fellow of Trinity Hall. He went on to teach history at the Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex and, after six years as Academic Visitor at the L S E, ended up teaching International Relations at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has held visiting posts at the Universities of Harvard and Chicago and at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre, Washington DC. His previous publications include Humanity in Warfare, Honour among Men and Nations, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe and the prize-winning pair, War and Law since 1945 and Churchill: a Study in Greatness He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

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ISBN 13	9781852852535
ISBN 10	1852852534
Title	CHURCHILL:A Study in Greatness
Author	Geoffrey Best
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2001-04-01
Number of pages	288
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