This is short book-length study of the series of early war cabinet meetings between the newly elected Churchill and his bipartison (national government) group of advisors in which Churchill held firm on his beliefs that a full-throated defense (and offense) against Hitler was necessary to preserve the United Kingdom and by extension the rest of the Western world. These meetings were tense in part because of the shaky ground Churchill’s installation as prime minister was founded–a compromised coalition without full support of his party; continued […]