Winston’s War

Winston’s War
Michael Dobbs

From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill’s remarkable journey from the wilderness to No 10 Downing Street at the beginning of World War II.Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors.Winston Churchill met Guy Burgess at a moment when the world was about to explode. Now in is astonishing new novel, Michael Dobbs throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's relationship with the Soviet spy and the twenty months of conspiracy, chance and outright treachery that were to propel Churchill from outcast to messiah and change the course of history.

MICHAEL DOBBS

WINSTON’S WAR

Dedication (#u0225c12f-513c-5cbc-96f4-55f2f8de1f1c)

FOR SANDY AND EDNA SAUNDERS, AND EDNA DICKINSON.

Much loved aunts and uncle.

Epigraph (#u0225c12f-513c-5cbc-96f4-55f2f8de1f1c)

‘How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.’

Neville Chamberlain, speaking about Czechoslovakia, hours before flying to Munich to negotiate the deal with Hitler that surrendered to Germany large parts of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were not invited to the negotiations.

Contents

Cover (#u2a47262f-9b40-5b26-a20e-66db35697744)

Title Page (#ucde4f56c-4212-5f10-9dad-f30e6f4f5298)

Dedication (#u4655d4f7-998a-5677-8c75-11a0a5ed2920)

Epigraph (#u23aa36fe-0b61-526c-b6f9-10d692447934)

Part One: Blessed are the Peacemakers (#u5196fa96-2c2d-569d-976d-1a55dce2ee7f)

One (#ufce7e6ea-d1a2-5e5b-a20d-8e3e79a3338a)

Two (#u36ce3a20-0bba-5179-aaff-54e099f36f77)

Three (#u5896c882-aa21-5a8b-b300-f786deb39b17)

Four (#ue2d1a892-9595-58c3-b492-36f034e14236)

Five (#u54f23da8-7a81-52ab-8d6d-8b0c1f74f016)

Six (#u7bcf0760-f506-57c9-b8e7-c519a4a12317)

Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: An End to Illusions (#litres_trial_promo)

Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: The Limits of Loyalty (#litres_trial_promo)

Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PART ONE Blessed are the Peacemakers (#ulink_ac8522ed-14b7-5817-8dc8-5b3465416f81)