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    The Crisis
    The Crisis
    The Crisis
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    The Crisis

    By Winston Churchill

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    According to Wikipedia: "Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American novelist…. His first novel was The Celebrity (1898). (Mr. Keegan's Elopement was published in 1896 within a magazine. In 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book.) Churchill's next novel—Richard Carvel (1899)—was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful. Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455345700
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    Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Churchill was a British military man, statesman, and Nobel-prize winning author, and, by virtue of his service during both the First and Second World Wars, is considered to be one of the greatest wartime leaders of the twentieth century. Born to the aristocracy, Churchill pursued a career in the British Army, seeing action in British India and in the Second Boer War, and later drew upon his experiences in these historic conflicts in his work as a war correspondent and writer. After retiring from active duty, Churchill moved into politics and went on to hold a number of important positions in the British government. He rose to the role of First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War and later to the role of prime minister, a position that he held twice, from 1940-1945 and from 1951-1955. A visionary statesman, Churchill was remarkable for his ability to perceive emerging threats to international peace, and predicted the rise of Nazi Germany, the Second World War, and the Iron Curtain. In his later years Churchill returned to writing, penning the six-volume Second World War series, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and many other historical and biographical works. Winston Churchill died in 1965 and, after one of the largest state funerals to that point in time, was interred in his family’s burial plot.

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      For the last time, no this has nothing to do with the British Statesman. Winston Churchill was an American Author who peaked in the late 1800's. He was most famous for his historical novels and The Crisis is considered by most to be his crowning work. I enjoyed this book enough that I read two other Churchill books after, so that is saying something. In fact I went to a lot of work to find them as most of his stuff is out of print (probably all of it). This novel is built around the Civil War and is (in my opinion) a very entertaining piece of historical fiction. There is some interaction with the periods greats, some melodrama (it gets a bit soapy at times) but uses real events without being campy. Churchill tends to go over the top in some of his other stuff and the plot lines are a little less plausible (his book on the Revolutionary War Period is ridiculous) but in The Crisis he focuses on developing real characters with understandable motivations. He also manages to weave in actual people for cameo's that are fairly unobtrusive and don't distract from the novel's overall direction. I think the fact that he wrote this book less than 20 years after the end of the Civil War accounts for his ability to accurately present the emotions, the drive and decision making of the characters and plot in such a way that makes it real. I for one, really felt like I was seeing what it was actually like to live through the period. It's not a war book per se, it is more of a romantic thriller and does nothing to glamorize conflict and killing. Overall, I found it quite enjoyable and really wish I would have enjoyed his others half as much.

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