05398cam a2200865 4500 527934662 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698164543 0698164547 B01LYJTE7S Amazon 5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2968757 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ricks, Thomas E. Churchill and Orwell [Libby] : The Fight for Freedom. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. London. World War II. Biography. War Stories. Animal Farm. Boer War. FDR. Chamberlain. Dunkirk. Communism. yalta. britain. European History. D-Day. Adolf Hitler. bestseller. Spanish Civil War. WW II . Roosevelt. Churchill. WWII. British History. Orwell. biographies. fascism. History. Winston Churchill. Totalitarianism. 1984. World War 2. dystopia. Leadership. hitler. Stalin. freedom. prime minister. George Orwell. d day. holiday gifts. the spanish civil war. christmas gifts. churchill biography. Dunkirk movie. best history books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 21MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller!<br /> A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Notable Book of 2017<br /> A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.</b><br /> Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.<br /> It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted.<br /> In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of <i>Churchill and Orwell</i> is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in <i>Animal Farm</i> and <i>1984</i> would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin.<br /> Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)