Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom /
A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world.
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New York :
Penguin Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The two Winstons
- Churchill the adventurer
- Orwell the policeman
- Churchill : down and out in the 1930s
- Orwell becomes "Orwell" : Spain 1937
- Churchill becomes "Churchill" : Spring 1940
- Fighting the Germans, reaching out to the Americans : 1940- 1941
- Churchill, Orwell, and the class war in Britain : 1941
- Enter the Americans : 1941-1942
- Grim visions of the postwar world : 1943
- Animal Farm : 1943-1945
- Churchill (and Britain) in decline and triumph : 1944-1945
- Churchill's revenge : the war memoirs
- Orwell in triumph and decline : 1945-1950
- Churchill's oremature afterlife : 1950-1965
- Orwell's extraordinary ascension : 1950-2016
- Afterword: The path of Churchill and Orwell.