WINSTON'S WAR is a masterful blending of imagination and compelling fact that places the reader at the right hand of the most momentous events in our history.Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors.Winston Churchill met Guy Burgess at a moment when the world was about to explode. Now in his astonishing new novel, Michael Dobbs throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's relationship with the Soviet spy and the twenty months of conspiracy, chance and outright treachery that were to propel Churchill from outcast to messiah and change the course of history.
Winston Churchill Serie
Esta serie se sumerge en los tumultuosos eventos de mediados del siglo XX, centrándose en la vida y la carrera política de una de las figuras más importantes de la historia. Sea testigo de los giros dramáticos, las decisiones críticas y las luchas personales que moldearon no solo el destino de una nación, sino el mundo entero. Las narrativas exploran relaciones complejas, intrigas políticas y traiciones, al tiempo que encarnan el coraje y la determinación frente a la adversidad. Es una historia sobre el poder de la resolución, el pensamiento estratégico y el impacto que un individuo puede tener en el curso de la historia.
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