Winston Churchill - Robert Alexander Clarke Parker

This work studies Churchill's changing attitudes and policies towards the evolving challenge of the 20th century. It neither denigrates Winston Churchill nor engages in uncritical adulation. It contains a series of assessments of different facets of Churchill's career made by a group of impartial historians mainly drawn from outside Britain. These will be framed by a personal memoir from Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames, an introduction from Alastair Parker and a concluding essay by Martin Gilbert.;The contributors include: Jon Sumida, Philip O'Brien and Warren Kimball from the USA; Brian McKercher from Canada; Paolo Pombeni from Italy; Tage Kaarsted from Denmark; Berndt Martin, Wolfgang Krieger and Hans-Peter Schwarz from Germany; Francois Kersaudy and Maurice Vaisse from France; Anita Prazmowska from Poland; and Ritchie Ovendale from Britain.;The book deals with Churchill in action as an energetic statesman concerned to keep Britain independent and influential. A wide range of Churchill's interests and concerns are featured.;Alastair Parker is the author of "Chamberlain and Appeasement" and "Struggle for Survival". Correlli Barnett is the author of "The Hump Organization" and "Old Battles New Defences".