Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795329911
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Book Synopsis Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1934 by : Winston S. Churchill
Download or read book Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1934 written by Winston S. Churchill and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Nobel Prize winner’s biography of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough: “The greatest historical work written in our century” (Leo Strauss). After the defeat of the Conservative government in the 1929 general election, Winston S. Churchill entered a period of political exile; a time he referred to as “the wilderness years.” It was during this time that Churchill began his work on Marlborough: His Life and Times, widely considered to be one of his most ambitious and masterful literary works. Although not as well remembered as his more famous descendant—Churchill himself—Marlborough was an influential soldier and statesman of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain, known in his day as a gifted military commander who never lost a battle. This second volume of Churchill’s four-part biography brings Marlborough’s military successes, political intrigues, and personal passions to life, while his descendant reflects “on the perplexities of alliances, the paradoxes of strategy, and the stresses of combat” (Foreign Affairs). “An inexhaustible mine of political wisdom and understanding, which should be required reading for every student of political science.” —Leo Strauss