Great Contemporaries

This collection of 25 essays allows fresh ways of exploring Churchill and his perspectives. Great Contemporaries presents Churchill''s thoughts on notable figures of his time, including men of state, of letters, and of war; ranging from Lawrence of Arabia to Adolf Hitler, from King George V to Leon Trotsky. In these essays, the reader is taken on a journey along the "stepping-stones of historical narrative" through Churchill''s eyes.Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Churchill''s birth, this volume is a bridge in Churchill''s autobiographical works, falling between My Early Life and The Second World War . First published in 1937, this is the most complete edition that includes five additional essays and a reconstruction of underlying source material, expertly edited and annotated by Churchill scholar James W. Muller.>

Préface
Original essays offering fresh ways into exploring Churchill and his perspectives

Auteur
Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States. James W. Muller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His two-volume edition of Churchill's early book The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan won the 2021 Churchill Literary Award. He has edited new editions of Churchill's Great Contemporaries and Thoughts and Adventures, available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

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Original essays offering fresh ways into exploring Churchill and his perspectives

Résumé

Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his mastery of historical and biographical description. Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937.

Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these portraits of notable figures of his age offer wisdom for our own. With keen observations and telling anecdotes, Churchill points out what he learned from them about greatness and also their limitations. His subjects range from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw.

Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Churchill's birth, this is the most complete edition, including five additional essays, more than thirty photographs, with a new foreword and annotations by Churchill scholar James W. Muller. This volume revives Churchill's unmatched insights and unforgettable prose for a new generation of readers.

Contenu

Introduction
Editor's Note
Preface
The Earl of Rosebery
The Ex-Kaiser
George Bernard Shaw
Joseph Chamberlain
Sir John French
John Morley
Hindenburg
Boris Savinkov
Herbert Henry Asquith
Lawrence of Arabia
'F. E.' First Earl of Birkenhead
Marshal Foch
Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein
Alfonso XIII
Douglas Haig
Arthur James Balfour
Hitler and His Choice
George Nathaniel Curzon
Philip Snowden
Clemenceau
King George V
Lord Fisher and His Biographer
Charles Stewart Parnell
'B.-P.'
Roosevelt from Afar
Additional Essays in this Edition:
H. G. Wells
Charlie Chaplin
Kitchener of Khartoum
King Edward VIII
Rudyard Kipling
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index