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Indlæser... Churchill in the Trenches (Kindle Single) (udgave 2015)af Peter Apps (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Pretty good short book (Kindle Single) focused on Churchill's time in WW1 -- after the Gallipoli disaster, where he was forced out of government. He went to France and was commander (as a Lt Col) of an understrength battalion (6th Bn of the Royal Scots Fusiliers) while continuing to agitate politically in the UK by letter, by using his wife as proxy, and when on frequent leave. What struck me was just how little effort a unit commander could put into running his unit at the front, and how this was apparently tolerated; I'm happy we have a professional officer corps rather than political appointees in the modern US military. It was apparently really weird even then to have someone as famous and politically powerful as even a disgraced Churchill serving as a field grade officer, though, to the extent that his men often assumed he was a General (as he wore civilian clothes, maybe it was more plausible). ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
November 1915: disgraced and stripped of high office, Winston Churchill heads to the trenches to fight.A quarter of a century before his "finest hour" in 1940, Britain's future Prime Minister faced a very different kind of crisis. As First Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the First World War, he found himself blamed for the catastrophic military fiasco of the Dardanelles. Thrown for the first time into the political wilderness, he decided to rejoin the British Army and take his place on the Western Front.The first standalone account of this period of his life published since the 1920s, CHURCHILL IN THE TRENCHES reconstructs his six months near the Belgian town of Ypres. It reveals he how he gradually won over the troops he commanded -- the tough but traumatised 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. And it tells the largely unknown story of how amid mud and squalor, one of the 20th century's most memorable characters became one of its greatest leaders. No library descriptions found. |
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