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The
2004 Award
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Winston's War by Michael Dobbs
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Winston's
War
is a masterful blending of imagination and compelling fact that places the
reader at the right hand of the most momentous events in our history. Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors. Winston Churchill met Guy Burgess at a moment when the world was about to explode. Winston's War throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's relationship with the Soviet spy and the twenty months of conspiracy, chance and outright treachery that were to propel Churchill from outcast to messiah and change the course of history. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michael
Dobbs'
books make an impact, not simply because they are superbly written but also
because they have an uncanny knack of being totally 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 bestselling hardback
of Winston's War was published just as the nation was voting
for Winston Churchill as the Greatest Briton. He has been an academic, a broadcaster, a senior corporate executive and an adviser to two Prime Ministers. He was at Margaret Thatcher's side when she walked into Downing Street, and with John Major when he was kicked out. As The Times has said, 'he certainly knows where all the skeletons are hidden'. He has also, perhaps less kindly, been described as 'Westminster's baby-faced hit man' and 'a man who, in Latin America, would have been shot'. He is now working on a second novel featuring Winston Churchill - Never Surrender. |
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