All behind you, Winston
Subtitle: Churchill's great coalition 1940-45
By: Roger Hermiston
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781781313312; 9781781316641; 9781781314845
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Politics and government
Description: Roger Hermiston tells the story of the men and women who steered Britain through its darkest hour, showing how they helped to win the Second World War, and how they laid the foundations of the New Jerusalem that followed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'A ministry of all the talents'; title: 'No longer two nations but one'; title: The Beaverbrook effect; title: 'A troglodyte existence'; title: 'A new Magna Carta'; title: 'Uncle Fred's recipe for survival'; title: 'Riding the dung cart'; title: 'The ascendancy of Stafford Cripps'; title: 'Ringing the bells of victory'; title: 'Slaying the five giants'; title: 'A grand job to be done for the nation'; title: 'Should we tell the Russians?'; title: 'Buzz bombs and flying gas mains'; title: 'A light shining on every helmet'.