Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [344]
Churchill with Truman and Stalin at Potsdam (Getty Images)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph and has received numerous British Press and literary awards. In 2008 the Royal United Services Institute awarded him its Duke of Westminster Medal for his lifetime contribution to military literature. He lives outside London.
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2009 by Max Hastings
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York
www.aaknopf.com
Originally published in Great Britain as Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45
by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, London, in 2009.
Knopf, Borzoi Books and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hastings, Max.
Winston’s war: Churchill, 1940–1945 / Max Hastings.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59312-2
“Originally published in Great Britain by HarperPress, an imprint of
HarperCollinsPublishers, London, in 2009”—T.p. verso.
“This is a Borzoi book”—T.p. verso.
1. Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965—Military leadership.
2. World War, 1939–1945—Great Britain.
3. Great Britain—Politics and government—1936–1945.
4. Great Britain—History, Military—20th century. I. Title.
DA566.9.C5H274 2009
940.53′41092—dc22
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