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Five Days in London, May A Student's Guide to the Study of History. The Hitler of History. A Short History of the Twentieth Century. The Future of History. The Legacy of the Second World War. At the End of an Age. But it takes as broad a view of Churchill as Five Days was carefully narrowed.

The present volume is a study of the reach and power of Churchill's mind: It is also explicitly a reply to some well-known criticisms of Churchill as thinker and actor and writer. This is not the right book to hand to the college Junior newly interested in war or British politics. It is, however, a strong and successful collection of essays that well serve more advanced students and teachers in the fields of history, historiography, political science, and to a lesser degree, military science.

Lukacs opens up old questions and inquires into new trends of scholarship on Churchill with the enthusiasm of an amateur and the skills of an author of two dozen volumes. His felicitous justification for writing—and for writing another book about so famous a subject—is that "Historical thinking and writing and study are, by their nature, revisionist. The historian, unlike a judge, is permitted to try a case over and over again, often after finding and employing new evidence" p.

Here we find an unusual defense of Lord Randolph Churchill, the father's biography as told by the son, as the best of Winston Churchill's histories. Lukacs has vim as a critic of several of his professorial fellows. Rutgers's Warren Kimball and Princeton University Press are rightly acknowledged for the three-tome "monument" of correspondence between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, but Kimball is also criticized for editorial mistakes.

The younger, less subtle John Charmley, author of books very hostile to the Prime Minister, is given a considerable handling and then dismissed. Lukacs observes that Charmley's hostility makes his critique too little like the work of better British historians and too much like that of German nationalist writers, e. This volume has one minor failing—in the writing, not the scholarship.

A few passages are unmistakably jumbled because antithesis and parenthetical observation are overdone, or historical or literary references overcrowd the paragraphs. We look out today upon not only Churchill but two-thirds of a century of assessments of him.

Readers of many earlier books will be refreshed viewing this new study. Lukacs sees his subject as a mountain, clearly visible, at a distance, deserving of its place of honor near the center of the expanse of the twentieth century. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'.

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