Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
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New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
ISBN
9781594206139, 1594206139
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
Cold War.
Communism -- History -- 20th century.
Fascism -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.
History.
Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950. -- Animal farm.
Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Totalitarianism in literature.
World politics -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
Cold War.
Communism -- History -- 20th century.
Fascism -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.
History.
Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950. -- Animal farm.
Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Totalitarianism in literature.
World politics -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781594206139, 1594206139
UPC
40027171908
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-326) and index.
Description
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's -- Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that, by the end of the 20th century, they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with, " if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom -- that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the 1940's, both worked to triumph over freedom's enemies. Though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, their lives are a testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ricks, T. E. (2017). Churchill and Orwell: the fight for freedom . Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ricks, Thomas E.. 2017. Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ricks, Thomas E.. Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Penguin Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ricks, Thomas E.. Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Penguin Press, 2017.
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