

Troublesome Young Men
The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
Author: Lynne Olson
Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History
Synopsis
Some historians dismiss the "phony war" that preceded this turning point as a time of waiting and inaction, but Olson makes no such mistake, and describes in dramatic detail the public unrest that spread through Britain then, as people realized how poorly prepared the nation was to confront Hitler, how their basic civil liberties were being jeopardized, and also that there were intrepid politicians willing to risk political suicide to spearhead the opposition to Chamberlain—Harold Macmillan, Robert Boothby, Leo Amery, Ronald Cartland, and Lord Robert Cranborne among them. The political and personal dramas that played out in Parliament and in the nation as Britain faced the threat of fascism virtually on its own are extraordinary—and, in Olson's hands, downright inspiring.