Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #007775
Full black paper boards. xx, 423 pp., [16 pp.] B&W photos. Some bumping to extremities of boards and jacket, else fine overall. A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful Hitler in 1940 while the world's democracies fell to their knees. But there is also the Churchill who frequently inveighed against human rights, nationalism, and constitutional progress - the imperialist who could celebrate racism and believed India was unsuited to democracy. Drawing on newly released documents and an uncanny ability to separate facts from the overblown reputation, Richard Toye provides the first comprehensive analysis of Churchill's relationship with the empire.
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