Books: Winnie

WINSTON CHURCHILL—René Kraus—Lippincott($3).

In the reeling spring of 1940 an Englishman's home was a place of horror. The Nazis were coming. Englishmen, looking at their wives and children, already saw them as corpses. Looking at their leaders, they saw the discredited appeasers, who had promised first peace, then planes and guns, finally failed to deliver either. A little while longer these ghosts of political dead men still squeaked and gibbered in the ministries before Englishmen said in Cromwell's words: "Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of...

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