title: Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
author: Brian Lavery
description: <span style="">Lavery does a nice job of tracing Churchills ideas, suggestions, and strategies during World War II to his earlier military experiences.</span> (<i>New York Journal of Books</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">what Lavery does best is track Britains military development through the half-century prior to World War II, a process that often centered on Churchill Lavery gives life to the arguments and compromises behind some of the most consequential military decisions of the last century, folding together crisp narration with quotes from British leaders.</span> (Paul X. Rutz <i>HistoryNet</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">How the knowledge that Churchill had accumulated shaped his perceptions and actions during the Second World War is a subject very much worth examining. </span> (<i>International Churchill Society</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Lavery's account of the coming of World War II and his analysis of how Churchill's military experience played out in his management of the British war effort are truly exceptional. </span> (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Exhaustively researched, impressively informative, exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Churchill Warrior" is an outstanding contribution to the growing library of World War II literature.</span> (<i>Midwest Book Review</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">very readable [Churchill] also applied many lessons of the first war to help win the second. Indeed, that key point is too often forgotten or glossed over: Churchill was just about the only leader who occupied senior positions in both wars and was thus in a position after mid-1940 to apply all that hed seen, done, and written about. We can all be grateful that he did.</span> (<i>The Churchill Project</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">The new work affords a thorough analysis and history of Winston Churchill the soldier and how he applied it to lead Great Britain to victory in World War II The result is a fascinating look at one of historys greatest wartime leaders through a new lens.</span> (<i>Military Heritage</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">The tension between Churchill and Fisher creates a backdrop by which Lavery demonstrates the motivation for a unified combining of forces after Churchill takes the helm as prime minister. To his credit, Lavery shows us the collage of personalities engaged in the multiple frictions of the military conflicts and how these characters sway a critical decision toward success or failure.</span> (<i>Manhattan Book Review</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">Sir Winston Churchill's admirers are currently spoiled for choice...Churchill Warrior's author, Brian Lavery, is one of Britain's leading  and most readable - military and naval historians...5 stars. </span> (<i>Army Rumour Service</i>)<br /><br /><span style="">An excellent book for anyone interested in the problem of leadership in wartime.</span> (<i>The NYMAS Review, Winter 2018</i>)
zlib_text: Churchill: A Life  
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Martin Gilbert
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright Churchill: A Life  
  Copyright © 1991, 2014 by Martin Gilbert  
  Cover art, special contents, and Electronic Edition © 2014 by RosettaBooks LLC
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
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  Cover jacket design by David Ter-Avanesyan/Ter33Design  
  ISBN Mobipocket edition: 9780795337277
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  > [List of Maps](index_split_004.html#filepos6317)
  
  > [Preface](index_split_000.html#filepos9658)
  
  > [Acknowledgements](index_split_000.html#filepos20725)  
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  > [1\. Childhood](index_split_005.html#filepos24561)
  
  > [2\. Harrow](index_split_006.html#filepos77018)
  
  > [3\. Towards the Army: ‘A fresh start’](index_split_007.html#filepos124630)
  
  > [4\. Second Lieuten