The Gathering Storm (The Second World War #1)
Winston S. Churchill
At the end of the Great War, the victorious Allies dismembered the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish Empires, and buried Germany beneath a mountain of restrictions so heavy that she could never again menace the European order. Within two decades, like a dark Phoenix, Nazi Germany forever shattered that order with overwhelming force and shocking brutality. What happened?
In this first volume of Winston Churchill’s history of the Second World War, Churchill offers tremendously fascinating insights, both personal and historical, into how the great democracies frittered away their victory to the brink of national suicide and the sunset of the democratic ideal itself. Authors of memoirs naturally cast themselves in the best possible light, but Churchill has the unique advantage of being proven right about Hitler and the Nazis. As the voice in the wilderness whose warnings went unheeded for many years, his narrative of the interwar years is well worth reading to understand the descent of Western Europe’s democracies from total victory to total war.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Series: The Second World War
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Autobiography
Tags: World War II