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By Staff Reports
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
“Five Days in London” • John Lukacs
Few historians who have studied world wars realize how the fragile balance of power in the world rested on the shoulders of one man. Sir Winston Churchill found himself alone in May 1940. He was opposed to his own Parliament and the British War Cabinet, which wished to enter into appeasement with Hitler. The alternative was to continue the war.
Famed author John Lukacs focused on five days, from May 24-28, in which France was about to become a vassal state of Germany. Churchill faced uphill odds of continuing the war, knowing the
Halifax Cabinet distrusted him, and with mounting victories, the Germans appeared to be invincible.
Nonetheless, Churchill relentlessly won, over a weekend, the cause of opposing Hitler at all costs. He convinced the country that “It is not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.”
A solid read regarding a great man.
– Steve Kirby, Bluestem Capital Co. |
