The Gathering Storm

By Winston S. Churchill,

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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.

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1 author picked The Gathering Storm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I first read this book half a century ago and still enjoy rereading it. Churchill’s style is modeled on the great historians of the 18th and 19th centuries. He argues with conviction and clarity that war could have been prevented.

However, I find myself echoing a 19th century prime minister who said of the historian Macaulay: ‘I wish I were as sure of anything in this world as [he] is of everything.’

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