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Road to Victory takes up the story of “Churchill’s War” at the moment where Finest Hour ended, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and carries it on to the triumph of VE Day, May 8, 1945, the end of the war in Europe.
Within a week of Pearl Harbor, Hitler and Mussolini had declared war on the United States. Thus Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were now leaders of the great alliance which held the assurance of ultimate victory. But in 1942, the first year of the new alliance, the war went badly for the Big Three on every front, and Churchill faced serious criticism.
In Road to Victory Martin Glbert charts Churchill’s tortuous course through the storms of Anglo-American and Anglo-Soviet suspicion and rivalry and between the clashing priorities and ambitions of other forces embattled against the common enemy.
The private diaries and letters of members of Churchill’s secretariat and the recollections of others who worked with him are also woven into the narrative, making this the most personal and penetrating study of a war leader ever written. In an unique exercise Martin Gilbert has used Churchill’s daily engagement diaries and the visitors books at 10 Downing Street and Chequers to trace hundreds of individuals who came into personal contact with Churchill at each of the critical moments of the war. Their recollections, most of them published here for the first time, add to the vivid and compelling portrait of a man of enormous capacity struggling to achieve an almost superhuman task.
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