Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-1955.

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

by John W. Young. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996. vii, 358 pp. $108.00.

There is no Winston Churchill revisionism in this book: certainly not a nod in the direction of John Charmley, Clive Ponting, or Andrew Roberts, not to speak of David Irving. Instead, we are treated to a detailed and insightful analysis of Churchill's "Last Campaign." This turns out to be not about elections but diplomacy -- the great love of the "great one's" career. Churchill participated in many "campaigns" during his lifetime, from the Boer war to the Dardanelles, to the appeasement struggle, ...

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