He wanted the possibility of counter-attacking later on. Way back in Volume II, Churchill made an brilliantly prescient decision: rather than going into a defensive huddle and putting everything into defending Britain from the impending German invasion, he diverted resources to hold Egypt. The British strategy has finally come to fruition. He claimed to know nothing about it, which Churchill believed, but it later turned out that he'd had a spy in place who'd passed out all the secrets.īut here's the bit that made the greatest impression on me. The things people quote most often are his bitterness about being voted out of office just as the war is ending, and Stalin's bare-faced lies concerning the atom bomb. There's absolutely nothing else like it, and he turns in another masterpiece.
The final volume of Churchill's incredible history of WW II.
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