A brilliant reappraisal of one of the most charismatic and powerful politicians of the twentieth century, which by examining Churchill's career in the years leading up to the Second World War posits the notion that, had he only been in power earlier, that war could conceivably have been prevented. R.A.C. Parker is a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. His previous books include "The Second World War", "A Short History" and "Chamberlain and Appeasement".
