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Churchill : the prophetic statesman / James C. Humes.
Van Pelt Library DA566.9.C5 H85 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humes, James C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Churchill, Winston.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Quotations.
- Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Great Britain.
- Orators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Orators.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Quotations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2012]
- Summary:
- James C. Humes reveals shocking predictions made by Britain's most famous prime minister. Churchill didn't need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past to make his eerily accurate forecasts, including the rise of European fascism, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the exact day of his own death as he entered his final years.
- Contents:
- Part I World War I
- Chapter 1 Prescient as a Schoolboy 15
- Chapter 2 Warnings from a Young MP 21
- Chapter 3 A Fateful Memorandum 29
- Chapter 4 Opposing the Sanguine Majority 35
- Part II Modern Military Weapons
- Chapter 5 Predicting the Age of Air Power 43
- Chapter 6 Churchill Develops the Tank 49
- Chapter 7 Foreseeing the Invention of Nuclear Weapons 53
- Chapter 8 The Modern Oil Crisis Predicted 61
- Part III Domestic Affairs
- Chapter 9 A Balance between Capitalism and Socialism 67
- Chapter 10 Unmasking Socialism 73
- Chapter 11 Postwar Technophobia 79
- Part IV The Age of Totalitarian Ideologies
- Chapter 12 An Ominous Novel 87
- Chapter 13 Misgivings about the Middle East 93
- Chapter 14 "It Is Not a Creed; It Is a Pestilence" 99
- Chapter 15 A Latter-Day Moses 103
- Chapter 16 The Indian Genocide Predicted 107
- Part V World War II
- Chapter 17 The Nazi Menace 117
- Chapter 18 The Nazi-Soviet Pact Stuns the World 135
- Chapter 19 Churchill Is Certain of Victory 145
- Chapter 20 A Rare Miss 151
- Chapter 21 Dreams of Defeat 161
- Part VI The Cold War
- Chapter 22 The Iron Curtain Warning 173
- Chapter 23 Bloodshed Averted 185
- Chapter 24 The "United States of Europe" 191
- Chapter 25 The End of the Cold War 199
- Chapter 26 "Parley at the Summit" 203
- Chapter 27 Vindicated Misgivings 209
- Chapter 28 Summing Up 215.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781596987753
- 1596987758
- OCLC:
- 744288141
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