Churchill Defiant

Fighting On: 1945-1955

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life.

In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and the bare-knuckled political and personal battles that ensued. Her ground-breaking biography Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, was the first to detail Churchill's extraordinary influence on Kennedy's thinking. Now in Churchill Defiant, Leaming gives us a vivid and compelling narrative that sheds fresh light on both the human dimension of Winston Churchill and on the struggles and achievements of his final years. At last, in Leaming's eloquent account, we understand the tangled web of personal relationships and rivalries, the intricate interplay of past and present, the looming sense of history that makes the story of these years as fascinating as anything in the extraordinary century-long saga of Winston Churchill's life.

History With an Anti-American Slant

According to the author I learned that:
1. Anthony Eden was very smart. Smarter than Winston Churchill. Much smarter than any American.
2. Winston Churchill was much harder than any American.
3. Dwight D Eisenhower was much more dangerous than Joseph Stalin or any leader of the Soviet union. The world was in great peril as long as Eisenhower was on the loose.
4. John Foster her Dulles was a very bad man. Mainly because he had bad breath.
Presumably after Eden disposed of Churchill and the evil American influence everything ran smoothly. Why Anthony Eden is remembered as a failure and Dwight Eisenhower as a great success must be a mystery to this author.