Books: Warrior Historian

THE GATHERING STORM (784 pp.)—Winston Churchill—Houghton Mifflin ($6).

From the fall of France on through World War II, Winston Churchill was a symbol of the reserve strength of the democratic world. He was the living proof of its power to rise above defeat, of its courage, its humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the...

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