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Their Finest Hour (Winston S. Churchill The Second World War) Kindle Edition

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The second volume in the WWII history “written with simplicity, lucidity, and gusto” by the legendary leader and Nobel Prize winner (The New York Times).
 
In Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill describes the invasion of France and a growing sense of dismay in Britain. Should Britain meet France’s desperate pleas for reinforcements or conserve their resources in preparation for the inevitable German assault? In the book’s second half, entitled simply “Alone,” Churchill discusses Great Britain’s position as the last stronghold against German conquest: the battle for control of the skies over Britain, diplomatic efforts to draw the United States into the war, and the spreading global conflict.
 
Their Finest Hour is part of the epic six-volume account of World War II told from the viewpoint of a man who led in the fight against tyranny, and enriched with extensive primary sources including memos, letters, orders, speeches, and telegrams, day-by-day accounts of reactions as the drama intensifies. Throughout these volumes, we listen as strategies and counterstrategies unfold in response to Hitler’s conquest of Europe, planned invasion of England, and assault on Russia, in a mesmerizing account of the crucial decisions made as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07XB48HNB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ RosettaBooks (June 30, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 25587 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 804 pages
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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called 'the greatest Briton'. An international statesman, orator, biographer, historian, author and Nobel Prize winner, his works remain in print with the world's leading publishers.

Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, Winston spent several years in the army before becoming a newspaper correspondent and then an MP. His cabinet positions included First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and later Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 and for five years led Britain though its 'finest hour'. Defeated in the July 1945 election, he was Leader of the Opposition until re-elected Prime Minister in 1951. He was knighted in 1953, the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He stepped down as Prime Minister in 1955 and remained an MP until 1964.

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James S. Ford
5.0 out of 5 stars An Inside View Of Early WWII Actions
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014
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This volume of Churchill's great history of WWII gives the reader a "fly on the wall" look at the activities of British and French leaders at various levels leading up to the Nazi invasion of Western Europe and the horrendous aftermath. Churchill includes letters and other memoranda he sent to European leaders, his cabinet and military leaders, and letters to Roosevelt and Stalin. He writes about unsuccessful efforts to persuade Italy to remain neutral and his efforts to support Greece and African insurgents fighting Axis control. The most interesting portion of the early chapters is the description of the failures of French military leaders to respond quickly to the Nazi attacks, the lack of French citizen opposition to exposed German troops marching through their villages and towns, and the heroic efforts of the Northern French Army subordinate leaders and the generals of the British Expeditionary Force to save themselves from annihilation. Although the Allied Northern Armies were cut off from the main French forces and were being surrounded by German armored divisions, they fought their way back to the coast at Dunkirk where they held a small beachhead. Anticipating the need to evacuate troops, Churchill's Admiralty staff had assembled a huge number of watercraft ranging from destroyers to small, personal pleasure boats to bring as many troops back to England as possible. Churchill had hoped to salvage 50,000 troops to help ward off a future invasion of England. Hitler had ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb the Allied enclave and shipping to oblivion. Although outnumbered four to one, the RAF was able to keep much of the Luftwaffe at bay, inflicting heavy losses. The Allied forces fought a heroic rearguard action against the superior Nazi armies that allowed the evacuation to be a success. Nearly all the B.E.F. (+/- 200,000 men) plus another 130,000 French and Belgian troops were brought back to England. The tenacity of these troops, the RAF, and the British people's determination to fight undoubtedly played a large part in Hitler's decision to abandon his plans to invade England.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Displays well on my Kindles
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2011
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We all know that this is one of the great books in the English language, so its basic quality is scarcely a matter of reasonable dispute. There are some minor problems with the Kindle edition of the text, but they are not (as some have suggested) the fault of Amazon, nor are they particularly disconcerting.

There are indeed some minor typos in the text--clearly the result of OCR errors when the physical text of the book was scanned. The publisher, Rossetta Books, is guilty of failing to catch and correct these errors. They are not, however, so numerous or so heinous as to make the book difficult for me to read with pleasure. A typical error, for example, is that the word "ministers" is routinely transliterated as "ministen." This is perhaps due to the fact that in some mid-century typefaces the "rs" combination was turned into a single connected character which would look like an "n" to OCR software. One's brain does need to be a bit agile to tune out these typos. They are a problem, but not a big one.

Some reviewers have complained about the quality of the illustrations. I agree that one or two maps are too small to be useful, but the vast majority of them (particularly the battle maps) display quite well on my K3. Do remember that you can enlarge any illustration by moving your cursor onto it and then clicking. Having the Kindle edition of the book is actually preferable to trying to consult the maps in a small paperback. Since one can download the book onto multiple Kindle readers at one time, I find it best to display the relevant map on one device while reading the text on another. This makes it very easy to follow the movements of the various forces.

Finally, several reviewers complain that the book causes their K2 to crash. Happily, that has not been my experience. It is every bit as readable on my K2 as on my K3.

At its current price of $2.99, Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" is a very sweet deal indeed.
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Gavin Wood
5.0 out of 5 stars Winston Churchill's account of WWII
Reviewed in Canada on November 6, 2023
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This is a great account from the man who was right there in the war. Very easy to read.
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R A Winmill
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing history.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2022
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Cannot put the book down. Discovering so many things I did not know about WWII
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Vistheena M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in India on December 23, 2020
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Nice book....Must buy.... Value for money....
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luigi turrio
5.0 out of 5 stars Together with Cesar and Thucydides: history, told by one who makes and understands it
Reviewed in Italy on November 19, 2018
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I admit: the moment I bought "the gathering storm" (Vol 1) I still held the prejudice that the Literature Nobel prize was awarded to the former British prime minister for winning the war. After few pages and, even more deeply, in the following three months till after finishing "Triumph and tragedy" (vol 6), I felt I was reading something extraordinaire and now I regret that the tale is finished. It reads as a thriller, a very complicated one, and it's unbelievable that a book made mostly by official letters and directives can catch your attention so completely. The sense of that historical period is given with the fresh feelings of the precise moments things happened but always with a mind that could read the real meaning of events, with an accurate analysis of the past ones and a lucid forecast of the ones to come. Together, you can catch the spirit of a first class politician, a statesman, capable of operating with whatever scanty material he has, of taking difficult decisions implying sometimes sacrifices of immense gravity in view of the least damage for his people. As I wrote in the title: when the tale of history is told by one who makes and understands it, then it lasts forever
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Tim
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the money
Reviewed in Australia on May 1, 2024
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Churchill was a journalist before he became the thorn in Hitler's side. A real page turner if you are interested in historical perspectives.
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