Deals with the British foreign policy in the mid-twentieth century. This work argues that Churchill deserves more credit for 'their finest hour' than has been granted, but just as his virtues were built on the heroic scale, so too were his faults and failures.
An important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of World War II. Entertaining and absorbing...Chamberlain hardly emerges a hero from these pages, but at least there is no excuse left for regarding him as no more than a wimp in a wing-collar. -The Guardian.
The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-57
In this sequel to the controversial, widely praised The End of Glory, Charmley turns his scholarship to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957.
A political Biography
Based on fifteen years' research in archives in Britain, France, and America, this new political biography reapprises the Churchill myth created by the man and his official biographer to reveal a complex figure who is far more interesting than the ideal leader he is so often presented to be.