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Winston Churchill

His Times, His Crimes

Tariq Ali
Englisch | Taschenbuch

The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And, as Tariq Ali agrees, Churchill was undoubtedly right in 1940-41 to refuse to capitulate to fascism. However, he was also one of the staunchest defenders of empire and of Britain's imperial doctrine. <BR><BR>In this coruscating biography, Tariq Ali challenges Churchill's vaulted record. Throughout his long career as journalist, adventurer, MP, military leader, statesman, and historian, nationalist self belief influenced Churchill's every step, with catastrophic effects. As a young man he rode into battle in South Africa, Sudan and India in order to maintain the Imperial order. As a minister during the first World War, he was responsible for a series of calamitous errors that cost thousands of lives. His attempt to crush the Irish nationalists left scars that have not yet healed. Despite his record as a defender of his homeland during the Second World War, he was willing to sacrifice more distant domains. Singapore fell due to his hubris. Over 3 Millions Bengalis starved in 1943 as a consequence of his policies. As a peace time leader, even as the Empire was starting to crumble, Churchill never questioned his imperial philosophy as he became one of the architects of the postwar world we live in today.

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The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And, as Tariq Ali agrees, Churchill was undoubtedly right in 1940-41 to refuse to capitulate to fascism. However, he was also one of the staunchest defenders of empire and of Britain's imperial doctrine. <BR><BR>In this coruscating biography, Tariq Ali challenges Churchill's vaulted record. Throughout his long career as journalist, adventurer, MP, military leader, statesman, and historian, nationalist self belief influenced Churchill's every step, with catastrophic effects. As a young man he rode into battle in South Africa, Sudan and India in order to maintain the Imperial order. As a minister during the first World War, he was responsible for a series of calamitous errors that cost thousands of lives. His attempt to crush the Irish nationalists left scars that have not yet healed. Despite his record as a defender of his homeland during the Second World War, he was willing to sacrifice more distant domains. Singapore fell due to his hubris. Over 3 Millions Bengalis starved in 1943 as a consequence of his policies. As a peace time leader, even as the Empire was starting to crumble, Churchill never questioned his imperial philosophy as he became one of the architects of the postwar world we live in today.

Untertitel
His Times, His Crimes
H | B | T | Gramm
196 mm | 127 mm | 29 mm | 0.346 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
FSK
0
Ausgabe
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Verso
ISBN-10
1788735803
ISBN-13
9781788735803
Autor
Tariq Ali
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
448
Themen
Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Moderne Kriegsführung, Flüchtlinge und politisches Asyl, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Politische Führer und Führung, Politik der National-, Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Demokratische Ideologien und Bewegungen: Sozialismus, Mitte-links, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
Keywords
Wanderung (soziologisch), Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Großbritannien, Ideologie, Menschenrechte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, HC/Geschichte/20. Jahrhundert, Moderne Kriegsführung, Flüchtlinge und politisches Asyl, Großbritannien / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Linksextremismus, Britannien, Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken, Britisch, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Vertriebener / Flüchtling, Zuwanderung, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Kolonialgeschichte, Brite, Imperialismus, Migration (soziologisch), Kolonialismus, Weltkrieg 1939/45, Weltkrieg / Zweiter Weltkrieg, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Politik / Recht, Staat, Verwaltung, Parteien, Periode des Zweiten Weltkrieges (ca. 1938 bis ca. 1946), Politische Führer und Führung, Linke (politisch), Flüchtling, Politik der National-, Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Demokratische Ideologien und Bewegungen: Sozialismus, Mitte-links, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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