Winston S Churchill has been the subject of many biographies, notably the multi-volume work by Sir Martin Gilbert that Gordon Brown gave to President Obama. His leadership in the Second World War has been chronicled by many, most persuasively by Andrew Roberts in his outstanding Masters and Commanders.

Churchill’s fascination with war went back to his childhood in the late Victorian era. The pugnacious red-haired descendant of Marlborough liked to direct his cousins as if they were on a battlefield. Even as a child, Churchill exhibited the reckless streak that was to get him into tight

Literary Review

Apr 2009

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Michael Burleigh

Mixed Signals

Who Will Rule the Waves?

The View from the Ivory Towers

Et Tu, Rishi?

Tear Down These Peace Walls

Quis Custodiet?

Once Upon a Time in Ukraine

Pirates of the Aegean

Age of the Pangolin

Too Bored to Vote?

Pedestal Pushers

The Lies Have It

The View from Beijing

Beyond the Black Stuff

Out with Battleships, In with Bakeries

Murder on the Mind

Taking Aim at Apartheid

All the President’s Hitmen

Imminent Return to Chaos & War

Dreaming of Rhodesia?

Majority Report

Apocalypse Nearly

Lone Star Study

Lethal Intelligence

Continental Shift