{"product_id":"geoffrey-wheatcroft-churchills-shadow-2023","title":"Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Churchill's Shadow [2023]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining...For any reader tired of the seemlingly endless round of Churchill-worship' Robert Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radical biography for a new generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiving due credit to Churchill's achievements but making no secret of his failures, Geoffrey Wheatcroft takes a radically different approach to other biographies. Going far beyond a reappraisal of a life and a career, he reveals the complex shadow Churchill has cast over post-war British history and contemporary politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelling the story of Churchill's extraordinary life and the equally fascinating one of his legacy, \u003ci\u003eChurchill's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on how we as a nation have been living in the grip of his self-written myth ever since his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is the indispensable biography of Churchill for the post-Brexit 2020s' David Kynaston, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Cusp: Days of '62\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wheatcroft is a skilled prosecutor with a rapier pen...this could be the best single-volume indictment of Churchill yet written' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A clear-eyed, incisive and superbly balanced account of Churchill, the man and the myth' Robert Gildea, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpires of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wheatcroft, Geoffrey","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51496786002259,"sku":"9781529110999","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/wheatcroft-geoffrey-geoffrey-wheatcroft-churchill-s-shadow-2023-9781529110999-1182255207.jpg?v=1753818566","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/geoffrey-wheatcroft-churchills-shadow-2023","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}