Volume 50, Number 8 · May 15, 2003
Talking All the Way
By Gordon A. Craig
Winston Churchill
by John Keegan
Lipper/Viking, 196 pp., $19.95
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
by John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 202 pp., $21.95
In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
by David Cannadine
Oxford University Press, 386 pp., $30.00
Of the four leaders who dominated international politics during the Second World War, Winston Churchill had the greatest amount of military experience. Adolf Hitler was a common soldier and an intrepid dispatch carrier during the First World War. Franklin Roosevelt served briefly as assistant secretary of the Navy after the same conflict. Joseph Stalin lacked even this minimal acquaintance with modern war, and unlike Hitler had no natural tactical or strategical gifts, as he was to show in June 1941.
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