Ebook: Churchill's trial: Winston Churchill and the salvation of free government
Author: Arnn Larry P., Churchill Winston
- Tags: European history, Politics and government, Prime ministers, Prime ministers--Great Britain, Statesmen, Statesmen--Great Britain, Biographies, Biography, Churchill Winston -- 1874-1965, Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography, Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Great Britain
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill over the course of his extraordinary career, both in war and peace—and always in the context of Churchill's abiding dedication to constitutionalism.
Churchill's Trial is organized around the three great challenges to liberty that Churchill faced: Nazism, Soviet communism, and his own nation's slide toward socialism. Churchill knew that stable free government, long enduring, is rare, and hangs upon the balance of many factors ever at risk. Combining meticulous scholarship with an engrossing narrative arc, this book holds timely lessons for today. Arnn says, "Churchill's trial is also our...