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The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill.Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill". [2]
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Chamberlain appointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War. As such he was a member of Chamberlain's war cabinet.
The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941 (1991) excerpt; Woods, Randall Bennett. A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941–1946 (1990) [ISBN missing] Woodward, Llewellyn. British Foreign Policy in the Second World War (1962); 585 pages; abridged version of his monumental five-volume history; online copies
Churchill Roosevelt Stalin The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought A Diplomatic History of World War II (1957) Funk, Arthur Layton. "The" Anfa Memorandum": An Incident of the Casablanca Conference." Journal of Modern History (1954): 246–254. JSTOR; Howard, Michael. Grand Strategy, IV, August 1942 – September 1943. (1972). pp 239–88.
Published between 1923 and 1931: in many respects it prefigures his better-known multivolume The Second World War. The World Crisis is analytical and, in some parts, a justification by Churchill of his role in the war. Churchill denied it was a "history," describing the work in Vol. 2 as "a contribution to history of which note should be taken ...
The first Kentucky Derby was the second of just three races on May 17, 1875, and to the modern 14-race spectator, that may seem like a short day, especially when you consider that four-mile ...
The Churchill war ministry was the United Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in the aftermath of the Norway Debate.