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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
By Ricks, Thomas E.
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- 9781594206139 9780698164543
- Publisher
- Penguin
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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
Former British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was a rotund, boisterous, blue-blooded Conservative who led Britain to victory in World War II. George Orwell (1903–50) was a gaunt, taciturn leftist and commoner; a foot soldier who took a fascist bullet in the Spanish Civil War, and author of the classic novels Animal Farm and 1984. What links these contrasting biographies? Former military correspondent Ricks (Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq) presents Churchi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
