Book description
The combination of Michael Dobbs' excellent writing skills and
historical passion, and the legendary character of Winston Churchill,
have provided two triumphantly successful books in WINSTON'S WAR and
NEVER SURRENDER.
In 1941, the war appears to be going badly on many fronts. Churchill is
the confirmed leader and so his domestic political struggles are
slightly lessened, but battered, bloody and almost bankrupt, Britain
limps on. Churchill knows his country cannot win the war alone.
An alliance with America is paramount, and Churchill is determined to
develop and use a friendship with Averall Harriman, American Ambassador
to Britain, and personal friend of President Franklin Roosevelt. But his
son's wife exploits this first. Pamela Churchill's passionate affair,
conducted under her father-in-law's roof, presents Churchill with the
appalling dilemma between saving his country, and allowing his son
Randolph to be cuckolded.
With no British battlefield successes, and with a jubilant Germany
controlling Europe, 1941 was a bleak year. America continued resolute
against fighting, but by the year's close Pearl Harbour had forced
America into the war. Why had the Japanese been persuaded to attack
American targets? And how were the rumours of the attack prevented from
reaching American ears?
Decisions of love and war are often matters of perception. And so it
was in this case.
This is an extraordinary novel of a man at bay, a nation facing
disaster, and the political skills, human dilemmas and brilliant
leadership that saved the day. Michael Dobbs' books have a knack of
being n uncannyily timely. His award-winning House of Cards trilogy
foreshadowed both the downfall of Margaret Thatcher and the increasing
turmoil within the Royal family, while his Goodfellowe MP novels showed
how a small band of highly motivated men could bring a great city to its
knees. The recent bestselling novel Winston's War was published just as
the nation was voting for Winston Churchill as the Greatest Briton.
