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In 1941, World War II appears to be going badly on many fronts. Churchill is the confirmed leader and so his domestic political struggles are slightly lessened, but battered, bloody and almost bankrupt, Britain limps on. Churchill knows his country cannot win the war alone.

An alliance with America is paramount, and Churchill is determined to develop and use a friendship with Averell Harriman, American Ambassador to Britain and personal friend of President Franklin Roosevelt. But his son’s wife exploits this connection first. Pamela Churchill’s passionate affair, conducted under her father-in-law’s roof, presents Churchill with an appalling dilemma: choosing between saving his country, and allowing his son Randolph to be cuckolded.

America remained resolute against fighting, but by the year’s close Pearl Harbor had forced the USA into the war. Why had the Japanese been persuaded to attack American targets? And how were the rumours of the attack prevented from reaching American ears? Decisions of love and war are often matters of perception. And so it was in this case.

Churchill’s Hour is an extraordinary novel of a man at bay, a nation facing disaster, and the political skills, human dilemmas and brilliant leadership that saved the day.

 



About the Author

Michael Dobbs’s books have a knack of being uncannily timely. His award-winning House of Cards trilogy foreshadowed the downfall of Margaret Thatcher and the increasing turmoil within the Royal Family, and Winston’s War was published just as Britain was voting for Churchill as the Greatest Briton. Michael Dobbs has been an academic, a broadcaster, a senior corporate executive and an adviser to two prime ministers.

 

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Captivating, Juil 4 2009
Par Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Churchills Hour (Paperback)
Book 3 in the Winston Churchill series

This fictional account vividly relates the grim year of 1941. The Nazi were unstoppable and were about to rule Europe, Britain was battered by the war and was facing one military disaster after another. It was a year of desperation, Britain stood alone. Churchill was facing his darkest hours and desperately needed the undivided help of his allies. A deeper alliance with the US was paramount.

Mr Dobbs draws an intriguing balance between Churchill's political and domestic lives mixing historical facts with fiction to give us a riveting political drama exploring his remarkable journey.
The tragedy of Pearl Harbour is further discussed in the epilogue and the author also pursues the post war story of Churchill's family and other characters.

This novel is so interesting and captivating, it is easy to forget that parts are said to be a creation of the author's imagination.

Many events described may be challenged by historical buffs on all sides. Nonetheless an eye opener to a very important part of our past...A past we must never forget in honour of those who were involved
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A Fragile Behemoth, Nov. 29 2006
Par Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Churchills Hour (Paperback)
Once again, Dobbs does an impeccable job blending fact and fiction to create both a larger-than-life, epic style Churchill with plenty of human qualities. What makes his writing style both tolerable and inspiring is that everything about the man gets thrown in the pot: the noble, the bad and downright evil. Dobbs offers us an historical perspective on Churchill that includes his unswerving vision for the grand wartime alliance with Roosevelt, the internal wranglings and machinations of his divided wartime cabinet, the adulterous lifestyles of his children and the fallout of questionable strategic planning in the early stages of the war. Through all these ordeals, Churchill not only miraculously scrapes through like he has so many times before but emerges as the man for the hour. Great read simply because Dobbs writes well and provides many intriguing side stories involving his family's private affairs.
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