Churchill
- Author James C. Humes
- Narrator Matthew Brenher
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 19 November 2012
- Run Time 6 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: historical, political and military.
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Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain’s most famous prime minister and how his critics’ perceptions of them shaped his political career. Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did. Now for the first time, bestselling author James C. Humes reveals these and other shocking predictions made by this legendary figure. Churchill didn’t need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past to make his eerily accurate forecasts, including the rise of European fascism, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the exact day of his own death as he entered his final years. In fascinating detail, Humes’ astonishing biography documents the spot-on prophecies Churchill foretold and the political consequences he endured for sharing them.
Critics Review
u201cPerhaps it is a clichu00e9 that a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman of the next generation, yet my grandfather found merit in the maxim. He had known leaders he esteemed as the greatest of statesmenu2026Churchill, however, was the leader he admired above allu2026In hundreds of studies of Churchill, no one else, remarkably enough, has focused on Churchillu2019s predictions and prophecies. James Humes has produced a book that is unique as well as necessary for an understanding of statesmanship.u201d
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u201cSome have written that the two giants of the last century were Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan. As the latteru2019s son, I might agree, but I will leave that assessment to historiansu2026Chroniclers will surely conclude that both men toppled totalitarian tyrannies with eloquence and courage. The two men had different styles, but each played a decisive role in the victory of freedom over dictatorshipu2026[Churchillu2019s] sound judgment, along with his courage, made him one of historyu2019s greatest leaders. There are important lessons here for our own troubled times.u201d
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u201cu2018What if?u2019 is the great parlor game of all historians, professional and amateur. In Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman, James Humes gives us a stunning but overlooked version of conjectural history. Humes outlines dozens of Churchillu2019s own spectacular prophecies, revealing him to be a Nostradamus of the political and military events of the twentieth century.u201d
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