Finest Hour

Print the Legend

You would be more successful in counting the stars in the night sky than every Churchill myth. Two twin irritants blight Churchill scholarship: mawkish bon mots, which Churchill never said, or his pantomime bogeyman notoriety. He is only missing the Fu Manchu moustache or perhaps a white cat and a secret lair.

So by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye should be a welcome reprieve. The book does not try to answer every

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