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Mills Stevenson visits Pretoria in South Africa where in 1899 the young journalist Churchill was imprisoned and then escaped from Boer captivity. He walks the battlefields of Gallipoli in Turkey and looks out on the Dardanelles to ponder why Churchill's bold military strategy failed. He rides his bicycle along the Western Front of World War I to visit Ploegsteert in Belgium, where Churchill commanded a battalion of the Scots Fusiliers. He visits Chartwell where Churchill spent the years out of office in the 1930s, warning the world of the dangers to come from Hitler and Fascism. He travels to Yalta (yes, on his bicycle) to write about Churchill's 1945 meetings with Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt, to evaluate his leadership during the Second World War.
Contents
Introduction
1. A Tale of Two Blenheims
2. The Playing Fields of Harrow and Sandhurst
3. Arrested in South Africa
4. Escape From a Pretoria Prison
5. Failure at the Dardanelles
6. Another Look at Gallipoli
7. An Ottoman Endgame
8. In the Trenches at Plugstreet
9. Churchill Returns to Westminster
10. Winston of Arabia
11. Remember the Mesopotamia
12. Weekends in the Country; Countries in a Weekend
13. The Storm Gathers Over Europe
14. Neville Chamberlain Stumbles towards War
15. Hitler Chews the Carpets in Munich
16. Poland and Czechoslovakia: What-if History
17. Underground in the War Cabinet Rooms
18. Italian Stalemates at Monte Cassino and Anzio
19. From Roosevelt's Hyde Park to Yalta
20. The Terms of Yalta
21. Churchill - On the Road Again
22. The Great Success of Failure
Places and Books
Acknowledgements
Copyright Permissions
About Matthew Stevenson
About the Bicycle
