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Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality in this tumultuous politics crisis of his previous 10 years of public life. Here is Churchill at his most outrageous, maddening, and devious - but also at his most human, courageous, and defiant. "I am an obstinate pig." This is how Winston Churchill identified himself. But at the end of July 1945, Winston Churchill was a defeated man - hurled from vitality by the British isles people at the end of the conflict in which he had just kept his country. Churchill Defiant is the story of how, when it seemed impossible, Churchill fought his way back over another six years to the guts of great events - the one place he ever wanted to be. In 1951, at last prime minister once more, he was ready to get started his dash to win "the last award I seek": the long lasting peace that acquired eluded the earth after Hitler's beat. But Churchill's battles were just starting. He'd have to income conflict with both his closest colleagues and his most indispensable allies, the People in the usa, to get where none of them wanted him to look: the negotiating table with the Soviets. Barbara Leaming has written a gripping, fast-paced narrative of bare-knuckle politics, of life-and-death decisions, of old grudges and fresh blame. It's the account of how, between 1945 and 1955, Churchill simultaneously fought to avoid a third world war and defy his own mortality as the time clock ticked away and time threatened to run out for him. That is Winston Churchill in close-up - a engaging, vivid, and deeply poignant portrait of the fantastic man at a time when almost no one wanted him to stay on the public stage so when he was inclined to do absolutely anything to stay there.
