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A 5 page book review that examines Winston Churchill’s World War II memoir. Churchill, as Prime Minister of Great Britain, played a pivotal role in the cataclysmic conflict known as World War II. After the war, Churchill focused on his considerable literary talent and penned a six volume, comprehensive history of the WWII, offering insights and observations that could only come from a world leader during this period. The Gathering Storm is the first volume in the series and describes the events leading up to the war and then the initial battles, which takes this book’s account of the war to May 10, 1940. No additional sources cited.
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his considerable literary talent and penned a six volume, comprehensive history of the WWII, offering insights and observations that could only come from a world leader during this period. The
Gathering Storm is the first volume in the series and describes the events leading up to the war and then the initial battles, which takes this books account of the
war to May 10, 1940. ` The Gathering Storm is divided into two sections. Book I, entitled "From War to War, 1919-1939," describes Churchills ongoing struggle to encourage Britain
to arm and concentrate on military preparedness during the 1930s. The opening chapter is entitled "The Follies of the Victors, 1919-1929" and, as this title suggests, it relates the numerous
errors in judgment and justice that were made by the victorious Allies after World War I. Churchill begins by conjuring the political and social atmosphere of that era, which was
a time in which the world viewed the First World War as the "war to end war" (Churchill 3). At this point, the Allies were "all powerful" and the "Teutonic
Powers...of Central Europe...were prostrate before them" (Churchill 3-4). Nevertheless, despite the position of power occupied by England, France and the US and the universal desire for peace, Churchill also
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conflict. Churchill cites Marshal Foch, writing that when he heard the
details of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, Foch said, "This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years" (Churchill 6). As to the clauses of Versailles Treaty
that drew this condemnation from Foch, Churchill refers to them as "malignant and silly to an extent that made them obviously futile" (Churchill 6). Considering the logic of this
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