Churchill's Enemies, 1927– 1940

Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny little twenty-year-old second lieutenant became a global leader.' The question is not a new one, but it never fails to fascinate. - International Churchill Society

Churchill's Enemies describes Winston Churchill's main challenges when he was out of office from 1929-1939. They were the rise to dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in Italy and the adaptation of his fascist system by the Nazi Party in Germany. It also explains the relevance of Hitler's collaboration with the Mufti of Jerusalem in the Middle East, who spread Nazi ideology in Jerusalem, Gaza, and Lebanon - and how, step by step, the two European dictators destroyed democracy.

This account of the first half of Winston Churchill's life should help readers to understand how today's world crisis began. The Cairo Conference was the West's first attempt to bring the Arab world into the twentieth century by solving the Middle East crisis in 1921. It also shows how Churchill changed from an ambitious young politician to an elder statesman as a consequence of his experiences in the changing world with all its complexities, paradoxes, and ambiguities - and how his decisions still impact world politics today.

The major menaces with which he was confronted throughout his political career were the chaos caused by Islamist terrorists in the Middle East from 1918 and the spread of communism and fascism when he was Minister for War and then Colonial Secretary. The author described the first two threats in his previous book, Churchill's Challenges.

AUTHOR: John Harte has written 21 books of modern social history about what caused us to be where we are today; several still scheduled for future publication. Eight titles are about Winston Churchill, with references attributing over 3,000 sources, including other historians or historical documents. Only one other historian has written as many books about Winston Churchill. That was his official biographer, the greatly esteemed Sir Martin Gilbert, who had access to all of Churchill's correspondence and official documents. Since John studied all of Gilbert's books, his narratives also benefit from the products of Sir Martin Gilbert's scholarship.

The author was born in London, England and educated at St. Paul's School, and Carleton University in Ottawa where he studied psychology. His home is now in Canada, where he writes books about the movers and shapers of history who gave meaning and purpose to our lives. Most are about injustice and the struggle for societies to achieve common decency. In the course of his travels and studies, he has observed the decline or collapse of several different countries and, as described in these pages, all for the same reasons. Author's website: www.johnhartebooks.com

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