- Publisher: Biteback
- Year: 2024
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 480pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9781785907890
- Product code: 533860
Winston's Bandits
Churchill and His Maverick Friends
Adrian Phillips New Hardback Illustrated
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Throughout his career Churchill valued highly the opportunity to discuss ideas openly with his closest friends. In exploring his relationships with Lords Beaverbrook and Cherwell, Brendan Bracken, Bob Boothby, his son Randolph and son-in-law Duncan Sandys, Adrian Phillips brings a new perspective to our understanding of Churchill’s thinking during moments of triumph as well as over contentious issues including appeasement, autonomy for India and Edward VIII’s abdication.
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Though
today he is hailed as one of Britain's greatest leaders, throughout his career,
Winston Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement
and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him -
but these strong and often feuding personalities proved to be vital to his
decision-making in war and peace alike.
Winston's
Bandits provides, for
the first time, a detailed account of his greatest friendships. These friends
were Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, a press baron who craved power but only on
his own terms; Frederick Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, an ascetic and
quarrelsome scientist who believed in Churchill's intellectual genius; Brendan
Bracken, an Irishman from a humble background who reinvented himself as a major
force in financial publishing and gave Churchill unconditional support; the
young Bob Boothby, who would earn notoriety for adventurous sexual conduct and
dubious financial dealings; Randolph Churchill, who was often a disappointment
and burden to his father; and Duncan Sandys, who reaped the full benefits of
being Churchill's son-in-law in his political career.
Together,
they were Winston's bandits. This remarkable book explores how Churchill's
relationships with these forceful and intriguing sparring partners provide the
key to understanding his greatest triumphs and disasters.
today he is hailed as one of Britain's greatest leaders, throughout his career,
Winston Churchill was an outsider, accumulating a reputation for bad judgement
and untrustworthiness. Only risk-takers and fellow outsiders would back him -
but these strong and often feuding personalities proved to be vital to his
decision-making in war and peace alike.
Winston's
Bandits provides, for
the first time, a detailed account of his greatest friendships. These friends
were Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, a press baron who craved power but only on
his own terms; Frederick Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, an ascetic and
quarrelsome scientist who believed in Churchill's intellectual genius; Brendan
Bracken, an Irishman from a humble background who reinvented himself as a major
force in financial publishing and gave Churchill unconditional support; the
young Bob Boothby, who would earn notoriety for adventurous sexual conduct and
dubious financial dealings; Randolph Churchill, who was often a disappointment
and burden to his father; and Duncan Sandys, who reaped the full benefits of
being Churchill's son-in-law in his political career.
Together,
they were Winston's bandits. This remarkable book explores how Churchill's
relationships with these forceful and intriguing sparring partners provide the
key to understanding his greatest triumphs and disasters.
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Throughout his career Churchill valued highly the opportunity to discuss ideas openly with his closest friends. In exploring his relationships with Lords Beaverbrook and Cherwell, Brendan Bracken, Bob Boothby, his son Randolph and son-in-law Duncan Sandys, Adrian Phillips brings a new perspective to our understanding of Churchill’s thinking during moments of triumph as well as over contentious issues including appeasement, autonomy for India and Edward VIII’s abdication.
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