Triumph And Tragedy

by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan (Introduction)

Overview

The final volume of Winston Churchill's six-volume history of World War II, this account covers the events leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan.

Winston Churchill's history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Triumph and Tragedy recounts the dramatic months as the war drew to a close—the Normandy landings, the liberation of Western Europe, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the surrender of Germany and Japan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395410608
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/09/1986
Series:	Second World War Series , #6
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	760
Sales rank:	591,217
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.

Editorial Reviews

"Churchill is artist enough to realize that these huge final chords must be simple. He gives us a magnificently muted close." The New Yorker —

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