Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
Thomas E. Ricks
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | 339 sider, 16 unummererte plansjer : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The Two Winstons -- Churchill the Adventurer -- Orwell the Policeman -- Churchill : Down and Out in the 1930s -- Orwell Becomes "Orwell" : Spain 1937 -- Churchill Becomes "Churchill" : Spring 1940 -- Fighting the Germans, Reaching Out to the Americans : 1940- 1941 -- Churchill, Orwell, and the Class War in Britain : 1941 -- Enter the Americans : 1941-1942 -- Grim Visions of the Postwar World : 1943 -- Animal Farm : 1943-1945 -- Churchill (and Britain) in Decline and Triumph : 1944-1945 -- Churchill's Revenge : The War Memoirs -- Orwell in Triumph and Decline : 1945-1950 -- Churchill's Premature Afterlife : 1950-1965 -- Orwell's Extraordinary Ascension : 1950-2016 -- Afterword: The Path of Churchill and Orwell.. - "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat
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| ISBN | 9781594206139
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