Churchill in the Trenches (Kindle Single)

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Churchill in the Trenches (Kindle Single)

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, Churchill 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 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 traumatized 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.

Peter Apps is global defense correspondent for Reuters news. In 2006, he broke his neck in a minibus accident while covering the civil war in Sri Lanka, leaving him largely paralyzed from the shoulders down. Of the 20 or so countries he has reported from, more than half have been since the injury. He is currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21) www.projects21.com.

Cover design by Kerry Ellis.
Country USA
Author Peter Apps
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781517752439
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 94
PublicationDate 2015-10-11
ReleaseDate 2015-10-11

Country	USA
Author	Peter Apps
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781517752439
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	94
PublicationDate	2015-10-11
ReleaseDate	2015-10-11

Churchill in the Trenches (Kindle Single)

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