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Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War)
by Winston, Sir Churchill
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (1953-06)
ISBN: 0395075408
EAN: 9780395075401
Dewy Decimal #: 940.53
Hardcover: 800 pages
SKU: 29191
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: 6 HARDCOVER BOOK SET! 1ST EDITION. THE ORIGINAL, UNABRIDGED EDITION. Houghton Mifflin, 1948-1950. Early print. Red Hardcover w/shiny gilt lettering and pages are IN FINE CONDITION, LOOKS NEW! THE ENTIRE SET OF SECOND WORLD WAR BY CHURCHILL. Rapid shipping w/free tracking. Great packaging. Air mail.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Triumph and Tragedy recounts the dramatic months as the War drew to a close the Normandy landings, the liberation of Western Europe, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the surrender of Germany and Japan.
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Customer Reviews
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The Seeds of The Cold War
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-30
This final book in Winston's study of the Second World War was first published in 1954. This book was indeed a tremendous effort in the light of the fact that Mr. Churchill was in office as Prime Minister for the second time.
Churchill describes D-Day and all its trepidations. He describes his disputes with the U.S.A. as to the Southern France landings which in the end America got her way. The description on the second Allied Meeting at Yalta is in itself priceless. Winston goes on to describe the final victory in Europe. Indeed Mr. Churchill should take a bow. He however does not.
His take of Potsdam and his ouster of office is all described. His relationship with Harry S. Truman continues and Winston goes further to warn the World of the Russian Bear. His Iron Curtain speech, in Fulton Missouri, warns the Western World of the Cold War.
Truman stood like a rock, Eisenhower continued the vigilance. In the end President Bush saw the Berlin Wall falling.
Winston warned us! Truman was right in his ways to navigate through these difficult times. Truman conceived the Berlin Airlift and threaded through the hazards of the Korean War. Eisenhower was wise to just chill and let the Cold War continue without a major conflict. Ronald Reagan huffed and puffed. George Bush saw the house blown down. It was Winston in 1945 who was prescient enough to see this happening.
Winston dies in 1965, along the Thames all the Cranes were bowed in reverence at his funeral procession. His legacy will live forever. 5 Stars No Problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Churchill comes full circle
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-08-12
Volume 6 "Triumph and Tragedy" covers the time frame of June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945 and closes Churchill's account. The war is moving towards its' climax as the Allies land and push forward towards Paris and then on towards Berlin. Failure in Italy to pursue the Germans was reached as `Anvil', Riviera landing Southern France, reduced troop strength and was one of the factors that change the future of Poland and the rest of the Balkans. The Moscow conference has Churchill and Stalin discussing percentages of influence. At Quebec Churchill was very anxious to forestall the Russians in certain area of Central Europe. Unfortunately Churchill's influence consisted mainly in a warning voice. He was caught between a rock and a hard spot as he tries to appease Stalin and also not to sever England's life line with FDR and America. Yalta brought hopes and promises to a war weary world. Perhaps if Roosevelt had lived maybe these could have been achieved but his death left many agreements open ended and unfulfilled. Truman steps into office and the problems of `Unconditional Surrender' surface as surrender with Germany and Japan becomes eminent. Poland, one of the main reason for England's entering the War, is once again on stage for their sacrifice. The future of Europe and the World is being decided and the Cold War stands in the wings.
Churchill's and England's influence has waned. Even as Potsdam was failing all he can find is a concerned voice. England was deep in debt and tired of War. With Germany surrendering, there was no more desire to fight another battle especially with Russia. The Atomic bomb is dropped on Japan's two cities and Churchill finds that he has been voted out of office. On July 26, 1945 he bids farewell to the Nation that he served and steps out of what he considered as an unfinished office. He states that the "power to shape the future would be denied him". He wished he could have stayed to help with the needed peace but out of office all he could do was speak. He was not to return again for another 6 years and by then it was to late for another coalition government.
This is an important volume and series in understanding a great deal about WWII history and the start of the Cold War. The volume is well name. Victory blocked Nazism and then unleashed the power of the atom. The World would never again be the same. Old fears were replaced with new ones and national hegemony reared its' ugly head. The peace that Churchill wanted was not to be. Well worth reading and adding to the history shelf.
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Winni; as he was known to the British during WW11
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-03-14
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was born toward the end of world war two, and I'll never forget how this brilliant and intrepid man, through his daily, radio speaches, made the British people feel that they would never be defeated by Hitler. Winston Churchill, saw, before anyone else in England, that Germany would invade the rest of Europe and Great Britian in his iniquitous bid to conquer, control and kill millions of innocent people, without a thought of anything else but his evil ideas of what he, a mad-man, wanted at any cost.
As I grew older, my family told me more about the war. An uncle, who was in the Royal Air force, had his plane shot down and he spent nearly five years in a German P.O.W camp. My mother, when the dreaded dozzel bug bombs bombarded London day and night, had one drop very near her. She was pushing a pram with my twin sister and me in it, two older sisters were with her as she heard the engine stop and watched it fall; it was a dud and never exploded or we wouldn't be alive today. What terror she must have felt; I can not imagine. But Winston Churchill's daily radio addresses made her and so many other people gather their courage and continue on despite the very real danger of living in London.
Winston Churchill was a hero, beyond compare, to the people of Great Britain, during its time of greatest peril.
So many brave Americans went to fly for the Royal Air Force before America had entered the war. And so many of them perished -- such heros!!! To fight and die for England and freedom before they had to: brave crusaders!!
Then America also was at war with Germany and brought so much hope to the British people. They fought and so many of them died.
I read so much about this time in history. And these books, although definately not light reading, tell about a time when not only the men, but the women and even the children did whatever they could to rid this world of such evil. And so much of the braveness, the will to go on, despite everything, of the British people was because of this great man: Winston Churchill, who told them, and made them believe, every night by his radio speaches, that they could and would beat the Nazi threat.
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Missing the point
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-11-22
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
I just had to add my two cents after finishing the sixth volume all of about 15 minutes ago. I ask my fellow reviewers who accuse Churchill of a completely selfish designation of "tragedy" on his loss of power in Britain to make sure they have actually read the right book; I can't see how it can be anything other than incredibly obvious that the "tragedy" he refers to is the inability of the Allies to halt Russian encroachment and lay the foundation for a peace which wouldn't be eventually and unavoidably interrupted by the potential for World War Three. This conclusion to Churchill's brilliant series is once again fantastic in scope and offers invaluable perspective. Most importantly, it is also incredibly prescient, as shown by 30 years of Cold War which we only escaped a decade ago.
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Whose tragedy was it?
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-09-09
4 out of 22 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having read the first five volumes of Churchill's magnificent history of the war that he was so instrumental in winning, I looked forward somberly to the last volume, fully expecting the "tragedy" in the title to refer to the fate of the Jews in Germany and throughout Europe. But as I worked my way through that volume, I found almost no references to this true tragedy of humanity. The tragedy in question was Churchill's ouster at the end of the war. I finished the volume in disbelief. Checking the index to see if somehow I'd slept through this portion of his tome, I found no reference to holocaust, none to concentration camps, none to the Final Solution, and the only references to Jews are their organizing of a fighting force, their mistreatment in Hungary and an escape in Greece. I have long wondered at this terrible omission, and long to read what the New York Times had to say about this book when it was first published.
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