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Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India
By Walter Reid
Hurst, £25
“THE saviour of his country,” “the greatest Englishman of our time,” as he has been variously described, Winston Churchill has also been denounced as a “racist and white supremacist.”
Distrusted by Tory colleagues, he has been described as a mercurial maverick, a charming but irresponsible chancer, a man of irrepressible vitality with only a limited element of focus.
No surprise that he has been much admired by Boris Johnson, then.
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