Lukacs J. Churchill Visionary. Statesman. Historian
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Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
books by john lukacs
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Tocqueville: The European Revolution
and Correspondence with Gobineau (editor)
A History of the Cold War
Decline and Rise of Europe
A New History of the Cold War
Historical Consciousness
The Passing of the Modern Age
A Sketch of the History of Chestnut Hill College, 1924–1974
The Last European War, 1939–1941
1945: Year Zero
Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900–1950
Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the
United States in the Twentieth Century
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a
City and Its Culture
Confessions of an Original Sinner
The Duel: 10 May–31 July; The Eighty-Day
Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
The End of the Twentieth Century and the
End of the Modern Age
Destinations Past
George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment,
1944–1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence
The Hitler of History
A Thread of Years
Five Days in London, May 1940
A Student’s Guide to the Study of History
At the End of an Age
John Lukacs
Churchill:
Visionary.
Statesman.
Historian.
yale university press
new haven & london
Parts (rewritten) of Chapters 3, 4, 7, and 8 appeared in The New
Yorker (1985), in The New York Times Book Review (1991), in The
Washington Post (1993), and in the London Spectator (2001). The last
chapter appeared in Destinations Past (University of Missouri Press,
1994). All reprinted material used with permission.
Copyright 2002 by John Lukacs. All rights reserved. This book
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lukacs, John, 1924–
Churchill : visionary, statesman, historian / John Lukacs.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
isbn 0-300-09769-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874–1965. 2. Great Britain—Politics
and government—20th century. 3. Prime ministers—Great
Britain—Biography. 4. Historians—Great Britain—Biography.
I. Title.
DA566.9.C5 L85 2002
941.084′092—dc21 2002069147
[B]
A catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For
M. S.
I earnestly trust that only those will
read it who really wish to do so.
—Last sentence of the Preface to
The Groombridge Diary
Contents
Preface xi
1
Churchill the visionary 1
2
Churchill and Stalin 19
3
Churchill and Roosevelt 49
4
Churchill and Eisenhower 67
5
Churchill, Europe, and appeasement 83
6
Churchill’s historianship 101
7
His failures. His critics. 129
8
Two recent biographies 155
9
Churchill’s funeral 163