Summary of Winston Groom's The Allies

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 After the Dardanelles operation, the Allied armies in Turkey grew to nearly half a million men. It was the most conspicuous British defeat of the war. Churchill was finished. He wanted to take some active part in beating the Germans, but he couldn’t - it had been taken from him.
#2 Churchill was assigned to the Grenadier Guards, a British regiment, in 1915. He was received warmly by the Guards’ commander, but was dismayed to find that the battalion was not at all consulted in the decision to hire him.
#3 Churchill was extremely popular with the men, and he enjoyed spending time with them. He often went out at night and checked the barbed wire, reconnoitered trails, or looked for signs of enemy penetration.
#4 Churchill was given a battalion to lead in 1915. He made the men sing while they were marching to and from the front, and he deloused their clothing. He made the soldiers build defenses with the keen eye of a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

Sujets

• Seconde Guerre mondiale
• History
• World War II
• Military
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509399
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Winston Groom's The Allies
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

After the Dardanelles operation, the Allied armies in Turkey grew to nearly half a million men. It was the most conspicuous British defeat of the war. Churchill was finished. He wanted to take some active part in beating the Germans, but he couldn’t - it had been taken from him.

#2

Churchill was assigned to the Grenadier Guards, a British regiment, in 1915. He was received warmly by the Guards’ commander, but was dismayed to find that the battalion was not at all consulted in the decision to hire him.

#3

Churchill was extremely popular with the men, and he enjoyed spending time with them. He often went out at night and checked the barbed wire, reconnoitered trails, or looked for signs of enemy penetration.

#4

Churchill was given a battalion to lead in 1915. He made the men sing while they were marching to and from the front, and he deloused their clothing. He made the soldiers build defenses with the keen eye of a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

#5

Churchill began writing magazine and newspaper pieces for the London press barons Lords Northcliffe and Beaverbrook. He secretly became Lloyd George’s personal adviser on the war, for if the Tories found out, there would be hell to pay.

#6

Churchill’s reforms at munitions helped the British respond effectively to German attacks in early 1918. The German army was bleeding to death from Allied counterattacks, and they called for a cease-fire that became a de facto surrender.

#7

Churchill’s life was buffeted by good fortune in finances and tragedy from the deaths of family members. He had increased his income by writing a book on the war, The World Crisis, which earned him more than a million dollars.

#8

With the end of the Great War, the political winds in England began to shift, and Churchill’s political prospects shifted with them. The Labour Party, which had been formed to represent the working class, eclipsed the two traditional parties by the election of 1922.

#9

Over the next two years, Churchill ran three times in three different districts, and he lost every race. He had lost his seat in Parliament, and he was beginning to feel like his promising political career was coming to an end.

#10

Churchill had been a minister in the coalition government, and he had overplayed his hand several times. He had been chancellor of the Exchequer, and he lit up like a gigantic lightbulb. He was back in office, and the new prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, made him chancellor of the Exchequer.