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by Michael Dobbs (Author), Tim Pigott-Smith (Reader)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Abridged edition edition (1 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007163150
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007163151
  • Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 12.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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'A thriller writer with a marvellous inside track knowledge of government.' Daily Express 'Dobbs makes of Churchill's wilderness years a cracking good political drama to curl up with. Not least because, controversially, the author presents an insalubrious young Guy Burgess as a key player in the statesman's return to power.' Bookseller -- star choice

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From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill's remarkable journey from the wilderness to No 10 Downing Street at the beginning of World War II. WINSTON'S WAR is a masterful blending of imagination and compelling fact that places the listener at the right hand of the most momentous events in our history. Saturday 1 October 1938. Winston Churchill has reached his lowest point. Reviled, mocked, accused of being nothing more than a drunken warmonger. Now his arch-rival, Neville Chamberlain, has done a deal with Hitler that destroys everything Churchill has fought for. But the world is about to change. Churchill is visited by a young and unkempt BBC journalist who rebukes him for being defeatist. It proves to be a turning point. Churchill grows to like his young visitor, who rekindles his determination to fight on. What Churchill doesn't know is that the man from the BBC is also a leading Soviet spy. His name is Guy Burgess. Now Michael Dobbs, one of the country's most acclaimed novelists, throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's relationship with Burgess and the twenty months of conspiracy, chance and outright treachery that propelled Churchill from outcast to messiah.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Becoming part of the action, 28 Nov 2002
This review is from: Winston's War (Hardcover)
As Churchill's growling tones lift off the page, you are immediately engaged with this remarkable book. Dobb's skill with dialogue is supreme. He inhabits this book with some pretty rum people. You recoil as you get a string whiff of the stale tobacco and whisky that seem to permeate the KGB agent, Guy Burgess - yet you can only marvel at his Machiavellian mind. Joseph Kennedy's evil is palpable. It reads like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, as Dobbs gives colour, flesh and vitality to long dead monochrome players. Like the Trumpers' barber, you eavesdrop on history. Would all such historical books be so true to life. I commend it to other readers.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, 26 Aug 2004
This review is from: Winston's War (Paperback)
Unfortunately I read this novel in parallel with "Eminent Churchillians" by Andrew Roberts, and I was left with the strong suspicion at times that Roberts' chapter on the Tory Party was almost being cut-and-pasted into the Dobbs book.

The anachronistic dialogue irritates (did high civil servants in the 1930's really use the f-word continuously?), but the explanation of the Churchill succession to the Premiership is certainly ingenious. The minor characters seem rather to lose their way, and to be tidied up at the end almost as after-thoughts. Dobbs might have skipped some of them and given us a bit more insight into the minds of Joe Kennedy and Beaverbrook, who are presnted as one-dimensional ogres. Cleverly, JFK appears in a non-speaking part.

Guy Burgess emerges as more interesting than I had expected, but Dobbs has actually attributed some of the stories surrounding Tom Driburg (also a cameo appearance) to Burgess himself - a bit lazy, really.

It's a bit like "Jesus of Nazareth" in a way, because we all know how the story ends before we finish the first page. So full marks to Dobbs for keeping us engaged to the end.

But please don't imagine that reading this book gives you any special insight into Appeasement, Norway and the Fall of Chamberlain - it's good fiction for the beach, quite well researched, but modern history it ain't.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What a pleasant surprise, 4 July 2004
By RT Twinem "freeloader" (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winston's War (Paperback)
I approached this book with some trepidition but was pleasantly surprised. The characters stand out as very real, it's as if Mr Dodds was a bystander on all the important conversations and goings on leading to the outbreak of WW2.
I would recommend to anyone who has a passing interest in the subject matter
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dobbs' Finest Hour
This is an excellent piece of "faction" in which the "real" characters such as Churchill and Chamberlain come over better than the main fictional characters. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Damn Good Read
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5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping Book of the Legacy of Winston
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4.0 out of 5 stars An absorbing tale of political infighting
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unashamedly a novel
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book that I read in 2003
My wife (who has encouraged me to read more in the last few years than I have ever done before, bless her), picked up an unread copy of this in a local charity shop. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing history to life
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
I came across this book quite by chance shortly after having read a biography of Churchill (by Roy Jenkins- another excellent book) and read it in no time at all. Read more
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