Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
"I read Our Supreme Task with considerable care and I recommend it emphatically. There is now an enormous literature about the Cold War but very little about how it actually came about and almost nothing about this address. This book fills the gap."- John Lukacs, author ofChurchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian."Philip White has recreated the eight months between the Potsdam Conference at the end of World War II and the world-changing events in Fulton, Missouri, with impressive scholarship, a sure narrative skill and a fine eye for telling detail."- Andrew Roberts, author ofThe Storm of War"Philip White has lovingly produced a detailed yet eminently readable account of Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946."Nile Gardiner, Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom"By reporting this event from every angle, Philip White builds the story of an unemployed world leader giving a talk at an obscure Missouri college into high drama. Churchill would have loved this book."- Jesse Kornbluth, Headbutler.com