Secrets of Churchill's war rooms / Jonathan Asbury.

Collection type	Library
Author	Asbury, Jonathan, author.; Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), publisher.;
Call Number	F 940.53092 A799s
Document type	Monograph
Year	2016. [2016]
Pagination	224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, portraits, 1 plan ; 29 cm.
Publisher	IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, IWM,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (page 220) and index. On 10 May 1940, Britain's new Prime Minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command centre. 'This,' growled Winston Churchill, 'is the room from which I will run the war.'This magnificent new volume gives you exclusive access to those War Rooms, bringing you closer than ever before to where Churchill not only ran the war - but won it. Go behind closed doors to sit at Churchill's desk, open up long-abandoned drawers and sift through sev enty-year-old papers. See the anxious scratches on the arms of Sir Winston's chair, pick up the phone that he used to speak to the President of the United States, and examine the map that loomed over his bed as he took his famous afternoon naps.These are sights you can't experience on a tour of Churchill War Rooms; they are views that few people in the world have ever seen. But now you can walk where Churchill walked, and see what Churchill saw. Now you can discover the Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms.
Place made	LONDON : London :

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Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Threat and Shock of War -- July 1936 to May 1940 -- ch. Two The Darkest Days -- May 1940 to May 1941 -- ch. Three The Tide Turns -- June 1941 to December 1943 -- ch. Four The Final Push -- January 1944 to Augus t 1945 -- ch. Five Preserving Churchill''s War Rooms.