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Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: And the Myths of Churchill's War Hardcover - 2006

by Gordon Corrigan


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Gordon Corrigan challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just how close Britain came to losing. He reveals how Winston Churchill bears a heavy responsibility for the state of our forces in 1939, and how his interference in military operations caused a string of disasters. The reputations of some of our most famous generals are also overturned. But this is not just a story of personalities. Gordon Corrigan investigates how the British, who had the biggest and best army in the world in 1918, managed to forget everything they had learned in just twenty years. The British invented the tank, but in 1940 it was the Germans who showed the world how to use them. After we avoided defeat, but the slimmest of margins, it was a very long haul to defeat Hitler's army, and one in which the Russians would ultimately bear the heaviest burden.This is a magnificent reassessment of Britain's War, from the policy decisions in the 1920s to the great battles and campaigns of 1939-45.

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  • Title Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: And the Myths of Churchill's War
  • Author Gordon Corrigan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 520
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780297846239 / 029784623X
  • Library of Congress subjects Churchill, Winston, Great Britain - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008396420
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.534
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