Winston Churchill, John Ramsden
Winston Churchill, John Ramsden
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Winston Churchill
Man of the Century

Author: John Ramsden

Narrator: John Ramsden

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2009

Synopsis

Winston Churchill was seen even in his own lifetime as a historic figure, one of the great men of world history, commemorated all across the world (but especially among the English-speaking peoples) in statues, memorials, streets and schools named after him, and in a plethora of stamps, medals, plates, and other such memorabilia. By his own effort and willpower, Churchill inspired the West in the fights against Fascism and Communism in the 1940s, the consequences of which remain very much with us today, while his name and his legend are still invoked by a wide range of contemporary statesmen. This course of lectures explores Churchill's extraordinary life and his remarkable range of skills and achievements in a sixty-year-long public life. It seeks to answer the question, "What was it that was great in Winston Churchill?"

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 31, 2022

The subtitle here is “His Times, His Crimes,” and as much as I wanted it to be “His Life and Crimes,” the subtitle works. The book is a little over 400 pages and there is a lot of the historical context baked in – much more than in a typical biography. Ali also covers his crimes, bringing to light t......more

Goodreads review by Constantinos on November 21, 2022

Tariq Ali delivers a well deserved thrashing to one of the 20th century's most important figures and exposes him for the vile thug that he was.......more

Goodreads review by Adriano on September 11, 2022

Kort samengevat: Churchill was een imperialistische smeerlap.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 09, 2023

Compelling critique of Churchill that brilliantly marshals the historical evidence. Ali draws our attention to Churchill’s treatment of striking workers in Wales and Scotland, and the brutal treatment of Latvian Jewish revolutionaries in London. We learn about the Bengal famine, the intervention aga......more

Goodreads review by Fran on June 14, 2023

for me it was good but what i already knew......more

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