Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, (Paperback)

from RobertP

Grand read. I had a hard time putting it down. It is British history written by an American journalist, and that is a good thing. The prevarication, cant, moral relativism, cynicism, and class consciousness that impedes so much British history is absent. Ms. Olson tells it like it was (this is my...

from RobertP

Grand read. I had a hard time putting it down. It is British history written by an American journalist, and that is a good thing. The prevarication, cant, moral relativism, cynicism, and class consciousness that impedes so much British history is absent. Ms. Olson tells it like it was (this is my...

from LynnB

I really enjoyed this book because it is well written and well researched. Ms. Olson makes history come alive through her portrayal of people and events. I think most people know about Winston Churchill's heroism and leadership through the Second World War. This book brought an added dimension in...

from Eliz12

A new word needs to be invented to describe this book, because "brilliant" and "extraordinary" are too tame. I literally woke up in the middle of the night, after all the kids were in bed, so I could read this book - and I work full-time, so it wasn't that I would simply catch up on sleep the nex...

from Schmerguls

5347. Troublesome Young Men The Rebels Who Brought Churchill To Power and Helped Save England, by Lynne Olson (read 3 Feb 2016) This book, published in 2007, tells of the course of British politics from Munich till after Churchill came to power in May of 1940. While Churchill decried the Munich p...