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A Study in Failure : Churchill at the Admiralty, 1939-1940 - Simon Matthews

A Study in Failure

Churchill at the Admiralty, 1939-1940

By: Simon Matthews

Hardcover | 10 August 2026

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Every politician's rise to power is a story of success and failure, accompanied by tantalising what-might-have-beens. The career of Winston Churchill was no exception. Very much the opposite of a hagiography, A Study in Failure provides an alternative perspective on the man regularly considered the UK's greatest ever leader....

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