Eminent Churchillians /

• Main Author: Roberts, Andrew 1963- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
• Subjects: Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965; Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Πολιτική και κυβέρνηση > 20ος αιώνας.

This is a study of often little-known and sometimes less than creditable episodes in the lives of the great and good of the Churchillian era. Roberts presents eight self-contained portraits and has had access to hitherto unpublished papers and closed archives.

Table of Contents:

• The House of Windsor and the politics of appeasement
• Lord Mountbatten and the perils of adrenalin
• The Tories versus Churchill during the "finest hour"-- Churchill, race and the "magpie society"-- Walter Monckton and the "retreat from reality"-- Patriotism: the last refuge of Sir Arthur Bryant.