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Amazon.com 'After the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost
universal hope that peace would reign in the world. This heart's desire of all the peoples could
easily have been gained by steadfastness in righteous convictions, and by reasonable common
sense and prudence.' But we all know that's not what happened. As Britain's prime minister for
most of the Second World War, Winston Churchill--whose career had to that point already
encompassed the roles of military historian and civil servant with a proficiency in both that few
others could claim--had a unique perspective on the conflict, and as soon as he left office in 1945,
he began to set that perspective down on paper. To measure the importance of The Second World
War, it is worth remembering that there are no parallel accounts from either of the other Allied
leaders, Roosevelt and Stalin. We have in this multivolume work an account that contains both
comprehensive sweep and intimate detail. Almost anybody who compiles a list of such works
ranks it highly among the nonfiction books of the 20th century. In the opening volume, The
Gathering Storm, Churchill tracks the erosion of the shaky peace brokered at the end of the First
World War, followed by the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and their gradual spread
from beyond Germany's borders to most of the European continent. Churchill foresaw the coming
crisis and made his opinion known quite clearly throughout the latter '30s, and this book concludes
on a vindicating note, with his appointment in May 1940 as prime minister, after which he recalls
that 'I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for
this hour and for this trial.' Their Finest Hour concerns itself with 1940. France falls, and England is
left to face the German menace alone. Soon London is under siege from the air--and Churchill has
a few stories of his own experiences during the Blitz to share--but they persevere to the end of
what Churchill calls 'the most splendid, as it was the most deadly, year in our long English and
British history.' They press on in The Grand Alliance, liberating Ethiopia from the Italians and
lending support to Greece. Then, when Hitler reneges on his non-aggression pact with the Soviet
Union (the very signing of which had proved Stalin and his commissars 'the most completely
outwitted bunglers of the Second World War'), the Allied team begins to coalesce. The bombing of
Pearl Harbor by the Japanese makes the participation of the United States in the war official, and
this is of 'the greatest joy' to Churchill: 'How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end
no man could tell, nor did I at that moment care. Once again in our long island history we should
emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious.' But as the fourth volume, The Hinge of
Fate, reveals, success would not happen overnight. The Japanese military still held strong

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