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The knives come out of the cabinet in Churchill’s wartime government

As if fighting the Nazis wasn’t enough, Winston Churchill faced fierce dissension in his own ranks, as a review of Jonathan Scheer’s Minister’s of War reminds us

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet Jonathan Schneer

Oneworld, pp.352, £20, ISBN: 9781780746135

Coalitions, as David Cameron has discovered, are tricky things to manage. How much more difficult, then, was it for Winston Churchill as he struggled to survive, then win, a world war, while at the same time managing his fractious three-party administration at home.

In this scholarly, yet grippingly readable study of the wartime coalition, Jonathan Schneer, an Anglophile American academic, reveals how much of a myth the popular legend of a political class and nation united behind their belligerent war leader truly was.

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