Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
"Not another book on Churchill!", one might say. Don't. Even in a saturated field, this one's a corker.
Laid out like a play, complete with dramatis personae (War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff, Ministers, Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace and such: over 80 in all), Nicholas Shakespeare goes behind the scenes to reveal the extraordinary events, every bit as much social as political, leading up to the six momentous minutes that triggered the ignominious unseating of Attlee and Churchill's election to power in the dark days of 1940.
Replete with quotes, many of them both original and amusing (e.g. Sir Harold Nicolson's), this is a book devoted as much to high society as lofty politics. It is also one of the finest niche accounts of WWII your correspondent has ever encountered.
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"Not another book on Churchill!", one might say. Don't. Even in a saturated field, this one's a corker.
Laid out like a play, complete with dramatis personae (War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff, Ministers, Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace and such: over 80 in all), Nicholas Shakespeare goes behind the scenes to reveal the extraordinary events, every bit as much social as political, leading up to the six momentous minutes that triggered the ignominious unseating of Attlee and Churchill's election to power in the dark days of 1940.
Replete with quotes, many of them both original and amusing (e.g. Sir Harold Nicolson's), this is a book devoted as much to high society as lofty politics. It is also one of the finest niche accounts of WWII your correspondent has ever encountered.
More video book reviews at thisoldHoarehouse.com
