Mirrors Of Greatness: Churchill And The Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors Of Greatness: Churchill And The Leaders Who Shaped Him

A New Biography Of Winston Churchill, Revealing How His Relationships With The Other Great Figures Of His Age Shaped His Own Triumphs And Failures As A Leaderwinston Churchill Remains One Of The Most Revered Figures Of The Twentieth Century, His Name A Byword For Courageous Leadership. But The Churchill We Know Today Is A Mixture Of History And Myth, Authored By The Man Himself. In Mirrors Of Greatness, Prizewinning Historian David Reynolds Reevaluates ChurchillS Life By Viewing It Through The Eyes Of His Allies And Adversaries, Even His Own Family, Revealing ChurchillS Lifelong Struggle To Overcome His Political Failures And His Evolving Grasp Of What Greatness Truly Entailed.Through His Dealings With Adolf Hitler And Neville Chamberlain, We Follow ChurchillS Triumphant Campaign Against Nazi Germany. But We Also See A Churchill Whose Misjudgments Of Allies And Rivals Like Roosevelt, Stalin, Gandhi, And Clement Attlee Blinded Him To The British EmpireS Waning Dominance On The World Stage And To The Rising Popularity Of A Postimperial, Socialist Vision Of Great Britain At Home.Magisterial And Incisive, Mirrors Of Greatness Affords Churchill His Due As A Figure Of World-Historical Importance And Deepens Our Understanding Of His Legend By Uncovering The Ways His Greatest Contemporaries Helped Make Him The Man He Was, For Good And For Ill.