Winston S. Churchill. Volume IV, World in torment, 1916--1922 / Martin Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Churchill, Winston.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (893 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, Michigan : Hisdale College Press : RosettaBooks, 2015.

Summary:

The fourth volume in the official biography-"The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written" (Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times ). Covering the years 1916 to 1922, Martin Gilbert's fascinating account carefully traces Churchill's wide-ranging activities and shows how, by his persuasive oratory, administrative skill, and masterful contributions to Cabinet discussions, Churchill regained, only a few years after the disaster of the Dardanelles, a leading position in British political life. Included are many dramatic and controversial episodes: the German breakthrough on the Western Front in March 1918, the anti-Bolshevik intervention in 1919, negotiating the Irish Treaty, consolidating the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and the Chanak crisis with Turkey. In all these, and many other events, Churchill's leading role is explained and illuminated in Martin Gilbert's precise, masterful style. In a moving final chapter, covering a period when Churchill was without a seat in Parliament for the first time since 1900, Martin Gilbert brilliantly draws together the many strands of a time in Churchill's life when his political triumphs were overshadowed by personal sorrows, by his increasingly somber reflections on the backward march of nations and society, and by his stark forecasts of dangers to come. "A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement... Rightly regarded as the most comprehensive life ever written of any age." -Andrew Roberts, historian and author of The Storm of War

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Illustrations

Maps

Preface

Acknowledgements to the New Edition

Part One: Minister of Munitions, 1917-1918

1 The Shadow of the Dardanelles

2 'A Dangerously Ambitious Man'

3 Minister of Munitions

4 'Give Me the Power'

5 'Within an Ace of Destruction'

6 'No peace till victory'

7 'The sort of life I like'

8 The Coming of Victory

9 Electioneering and Cabinet Making

Part Two: At the War Office, 1919-1921

10 Demobilization

11 Secretary of State for Air

12 Russia in Turmoil

13 Mission to Paris

14 'I know of no Russian policy'

15 'The Bolshevik Tyranny is the Worst….'

16 'Now Is the Time to Help'

17 'The Whole Fate of Russia'

18 'Mr Churchill's Private War'

19 General Denikin's Retreat

20 The Triumph of the Bolsheviks

21 'Everybody Wishing to Make Their Peace'

22 'The Hairy Paw of the Baboon'

23 The Amritsar Debate

24 'The Poison Peril from the East'

25 Russia's 'Bloodstained Gold'

26 Ireland 1919-1920: 'Let Murder Stop'

27 Turkey in Defeat

28 'These Thankless Deserts'

Part Three: At the Colonial Office, 1921-1922

29 Creating the Middle East Department

30 'I am determined to save you millions'

31 The Cairo Conference: March 1921

32 Visit to Jerusalem

33 The Middle East Settlement

34 1921: 'A wonderful and terrible year'

35 Palestine 1921: 'Give the Jews their chance'

36 Palestine 1922: Defending the Balfour Declaration

37 'This mysterious power of Ireland'

38 The Irish Treaty: 'A statue of snow'

39 Ireland 1922: 'Will the lesson be learned in time'

40 Ireland 1922: 'The unceasing, tormenting struggle'

41 The War Memoirs: 'A gt chance to put my whole case'

42 In Defence of The Coalition

43 The Genoa Conference

44 Iraq 1921-1922: 'An ungrateful Volcano'.

45 The Chanak Crisis

46 The Fall of the Coalition

47 'I thought his career was over'

48 Retrospect: 'Ponder, &amp

then act'

List of Sources

Endnotes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780795344541

0795344546