Churchill Revisited, a Critical Assessment

by Taylor, A.J.P.; J.H. Plumb and Basil Liddell Hart

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First edition

New York: Dial Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 274 pages plus a six-page unnumbered detailed outline of Churchill's career at the end of the book. "to do justice to a great man, discriminating criticism is necessary."--Winston Churchill in his summary of Kitchener in The River War. Here are examples of the work of these first-rate scholars: J. H. Plumb offers an excellent discussion and critique of Churchill's history. He calls him the "last historical symbol of the Whig tradition-a tradition that was dying and only sprang into renewed vitality through the stress of war." For Churchill, history "was a living reality which imbued all he did or said." Basil Liddell Hart takes up Churchill as a military strategist and concludes that, in the First World War, Churchill received more blame than was his due, whereas in the Second World War "the value of his contributions were overrated.". A.J.P. Taylor writes: he was essentially a conservative, with a "tenacious defense of the past" and no view of the future. Raised up by the British people, he failed them, whereas the "British ruling class did their best to keep him down and he preserved them.". One of the most useful studies of one of the most remarkable key people in the 20th Century. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering black. A near fine copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a chip to upper edge of front panel and some toning to rear panel.

• Publisher: Dial Press
• Year: 1969
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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