Churchills Britain: from the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight by Peter Clark

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228mm x 152mm x 33mm

Pages: 240

Clark takes us on a geographical journey through Churchills life, following his footsteps through Britain and Ireland.

More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter ClarkGÇÖs book, however, is not merely another Churchill biography. ChurchillGÇÖs Britain takes us on a geographical journey through ChurchillGÇÖs life, leading us in ChurchillGÇÖs footsteps through locations in Britain and Ireland that are tied to key aspects of his biography. Some are familiarGÇôBlenheim Palace, where he was born; Chartwell, his beloved house in the country; and the Cabinet War Rooms, where he planned the campaigns of World War II. But we also are taken to his schools, his parliamentary constituencies, locations of famous speeches, the place where he started to paint, the tobacco shop where he bought his cigars, and the graves of his family and close friends.

Clark brings us close to the statesman Churchill by visiting sites that were important to the story of his long life, from the site where his father proposed to his American mother on the Isle of Wight to his grave in a country churchyard in Oxfordshire. Designed as a gazetteer with helpful regional maps, ChurchillGÇÖs Britain can be dipped into, consulted by the traveler on a Churchill tour of Britain, or read straight throughGÇöand no matter how itGÇÖs read, it will deliver fresh insights into this extraordinary man.