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From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash
hit Netflix series House of Cards, Churchill's Triumph transports
us to the end of WWII as the three most powerful men on
earth-Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph
Stalin-gather in what will later become known as the Yalta
Conference to discuss the possibility of worldwide peace. Despite
their shared goals, these supposed allies will lie, cheat, and
deceive each other in order to secure their respective places in
history.
Dobbs takes you behind the scenes and brings you into the minds
and hearts of the big three leaders: the dominating and seemingly
all-powerful Joseph Stalin, with the largest army, and the
mission of expanding the Soviet Empire; an ailing and fragile
Roosevelt, willing to make whatever compromises he felt he had to
in order to bring Stalin and Russia into the final campaign
against Japan; and Churchill, the least powerful of the three,
but the most far-ed, who could not count on Roosevelt as his
ally, and could not tame the avaricious Russian bear, determined
to gobble up the nations around and beyond it. Like a fly on the
wall of history, the reader becomes a hidden witness to these
monumental negotiations, witnessing negotiations that would
betray the heroic struggle of millions who died and fought in the
Great War.
Accled author Michael Dobbs allows the reader to eavesdrop on
the world's most powerful men at a crucial point in modern
history.
Praise for Churchill's Triumph by Michael Dobbs, bestselling
author of House of Cards, the book that inspired the Netflix
series starring Kevin Spacey:
"His portrait of Churchill is as masterly as ever: a wonderful
compound of bluster, sentimentality, grumpiness and indeigable
physical energy. There are the usual elegant metaphors... In the
tragedy of Poland burning while statesmen fiddled, Dobbs has
found a theme worthy of his powers."-Sunday Telegraph
"How do you delight the profit-maximising big retailers while at
the same time writing something dark and moving? Michael Dobbs
knows how...Dobbs knows his sources, but the dialogue is his own:
good, clean, moving briskly and underpinned by the record, it
conveys historical truth. As for Poland, it suffered all the
horrors. Dobbs writes about the country with tight passion,
transferring to his fictional village, Piorun, the rape, murder
and savage by Germans and Russians which, so far away
and so little regarded, actually happened. The old women weeping,
the houses burned down, the bodies left promiscuously on the
street are history set out for the attention of novel-readers,
memorable instruction in human grief... Furiously told and
compelling, Churchill's Triumph is a thinking man's
bestseller."-The Guardian
"Dobbs astutely and dramatically portrays the real story of
Yalta, the mighty tussle between the three men upon whose
political skills and strength of character the rest of the world
would depend... The novel is a triumph because of the author's
fine appreciation of history and his meticulous eye for
detail."-The Times
"Michael Dobbs brings the Second World War to a resounding
close... Dobbs portrays Churchill as being all too human -
oversensitive and easily hurt by friendship betrayed, and
conjures up Roosevelt's stricken response beautifully... Dobbs is
a fine writer and neatly sums up the appeal of historical novels.
Not only can they fill in the gaps left by an inaccurate,
incomplete or contradictory factual record, but they can capture
the spirit of the thing. Dobbs has certainly done that
here."-Daily Telegraph
"It's all too easy to forget that you're not reading an
insider's account of ht real events that shaped the modern world.
Dobbs clearly has an instinctive feel for what makes powerful men
tick."-The Mail on Sunday