The Grand Alliance

Oct 11, 2024 2:21 PM

Author:Winston Churchill

The Grand Alliance

Winston Churchill's six-volume 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 for literature. The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of 1941 surrounding America's entry into the War and Hitler's march on Russia - the continuing onslaught on British civilians during the Blitz, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance between Britain and America that shaped the outcome of the War.

Reviews

A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers

—— Tim Gardam , The Times

Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence

—— Richard Ovary , Telegraph

Richard Overy is writing at the height of his powers... The result is often startling, never less than fascinating

—— Adam Sisman , Observer

A thought provoking reappraisal of the war - deeply researched, complex and yet beautifully lucid

—— Correlli Barnett , Times Literary Supplement

We cannot know what Anne Darquier would have thought of Callil's book, but my guess is that she would have been as moved, astonished and impressed as any other reader

—— Ruth Scurr , The Times

Extraordinary...touching... a masterpiece of lacerating satire

—— Peter Conrad , Observer

In providing such a detailed picture of one of the functionaries of the Nazi empire, Callil has brilliantly shown how such a system could encourage and promote nonentities who were prepared to mouth the necessary phrases, and to ignore the call of humanity

—— Richard Griffiths , New Statesman

Bad Faith represents eight years of astonishing research...a remarkable book

—— Antony Beevor , Sunday Telegraph

A meticulous work of scholarship... [an] astonishing biography

—— Adam Thorpe , Guardian

Impeccably researched, Bad Faith is a work of great power and originality; Callil is to be congratulated on her achieivement

—— Sunday Times

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