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'Worthy and evocative'
--Vernon Bogdanor, FT
"Holmes accomplishes much in little space. He gives a readable and cogent description...He successfully recreates the atmosphere of the place" --Geoffrey Best, History Today
"Fascinating" --Tim Newark, Time Out --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
--Vernon Bogdanor, FT
"Holmes accomplishes much in little space. He gives a readable and cogent description...He successfully recreates the atmosphere of the place" --Geoffrey Best, History Today
"Fascinating" --Tim Newark, Time Out --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"'Superb... Holmes vividly recaptures what it was like to work in Churchill's bunker, the fabulous highs and dispiriting lows... a fitting memorial to the men and women who worked so hard down there over six gruelling years of war.' Andrew Roberts, Observer 'Bright and fascinating... it illuminates the underground warren of sunless rooms where Churchill's staff functioned below blackened London streets' John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London 'Vivid and compelling' Professor Sir Lawrence Freeman"
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is must for all historians, London tourists interested by this super piece of our history as well as scholars of Churchill. I use some of Richard Holmes work as reference for my lectures and workshops on effective leadership recommending his books to my delegates and I have used the London 'bunker' as a venue for a management learning event. That was an incredible experience and Richard Holmes has tapped in to the life and rhythm of the location during those crucial years. A really superb account and another excellent piece of work from this great historian.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having taken pupils around the "Bunker" on numerous occasions this book offers a further insight to that period of history that has only fairly recently been public. The War Rooms, and indeed the Tunnels of Dover Castle, help visualise the enormous spread of a World War and our 'darkest Hour'. There is also a sentiment of nostalgia and a 'toe dip' into a National pride that today we only see on the big occasion - often sport. The Nostalgia is a by-product of the book knowing my parents lived through this and, as I age, the fact it was only 10 years before I was born.
Richard Holmes is always readable and, as with all his books, a historians friend, bringing an era shape, form and as it is reality.
Richard Holmes is always readable and, as with all his books, a historians friend, bringing an era shape, form and as it is reality.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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If you are interested in the last war, Winston Churchill and the history of this country and how we remained British and free, then please read this book, and get your children to read it, as they are sadly lacking in the recent history of this once great country of ours,and its great leaders. I lived through it all as a small child, and only now realise just what went on..and how very very lucky we were.
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Churchill's "Hole" and Holmes Last Chance Saloon
Why another book on the Greatest Briton of all time during the Second World War? First, it is Imperial War Museum's attempt to attract visitors to the memorable Cabinet War Rooms... Read more
Published 10 months ago by mangilli-climpson m
Not Richard Holmes best work
Churchill's Bunker is something of a disappointment: it is lively in places, but slow - even staid - at the beginning. Read more
Published 17 months ago by John Middleton
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Must admit to being baffled by the reviews praising this book!I found it boring and repetitive...going round in circles,with the end not coming soon enough. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Al Boy
Bunkered
Richard Holmes has written an excellent book about Churchill's secret headquarters in the very heart of London. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Neutral
Churchills Bunker
Interesting but somewhat confusing when talking of the bunker and the book is more about Churchill than the bunker
Published on 19 Nov 2009 by David Ian Viccars
Churchill's Bunker by Richard Holmes
Concise and informative - takes you through the development and day to day operations of the place. Set firmly in the overall context of the conduct of the war. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by Mr. J. D. Swarbrick
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