Churchill; Four Faces and the Man
London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1969. Presumed First U. K. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 252, [4] pages. Occasional footnotes. Ink comment, signed and dated on fep. A., J. P. Taylor--The Statesman; Robert Rhodes James--The Politician; J. H. Plumb--The Historian; Basil Liddell Hart--The Military Strategist; Anthony Storr--The Man; and Chronology. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. He argued that frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as happened in the First World War. He instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. His pre-war publications are known to have influenced German wartime strategy, though he was accused of prompting captured generals to exaggerate his part in the development of blitzkrieg tactics. Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author. In his books, Storr explored the secrets of the dark sides of the human psyche – aggression (Human Aggression, 1968), and destructiveness (Human Destructiveness, 1972). At the same time, he saw the possibility of creative use of these spontaneous drives and directing them towards sports, scientific and artistic feats (The Dynamics of Creation, 1972). Alan John Percivale Taylor FBA (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialized in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigor and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years. Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James (10 April 1933 – 20 May 1999) was a British historian, and Conservative Member of Parliament. He attended the University of Oxford. From 1955 to 1964, he was a clerk of the House of Commons. During this time, he wrote a number of biographical and historical books. He then moved to academia, having been elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1965. He was Director of the Institute for the Study of International Organisation at the University of Sussex (1968–1973), and then Principal Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations (1973–1976). He moved out from behind the scenes when he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge in the 1976 by-election. He spent most of his parliamentary career on the backbenches, apart from serving as a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Foreign Office (1979–1982). He was knighted in 1991, before stepping down as an MP in the following year. During his time as an MP, he continued to author multiple books, and maintained his academic standing through visiting professorships and his Oxford fellowship. From 1991, until his death, he was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb FBA (20 August 1911 – 21 October 2001) was a British historian, known for his books on British 18th-century history. He wrote over thirty books. Plumb at University College, Leicester (BA Lond. 1933) and finally at Christ's College, Cambridge (PhD 1936). His doctoral thesis, on the social structure of the House of Commons at the time of William III, was supervised by G. M. Trevelyan, the only time that Trevelyan is believed to have taken on that role. In 1939, Plumb was elected to the Ehrman Fellowship, which was a research fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. During the Second World War, Plumb worked in the codebreaking department of the Foreign Office at Bletchley Park, Hut 8 and Hut 4, later Block B. He headed a section working on a German Navy hand cipher, Reservehandverfahren. In 1946, he became a Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College and a University Lecturer in History. In 1957, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters for his work on 18th-century history, and in 1962, he was appointed Reader in Modern History at Cambridge University. He became Professor of Modern English History in the University in 1966. He served as Master of Christ's College from 1978 to 1982. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1968 and knighted in 1982. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Winston Churchill, Statesman, Politician, Historian, Personality, Military Strategist, Leader, Second World War, British Empire, Prime Minister
ISBN: 0713900911
[Book #83713]
Price: $100.00