Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms

Author(s): Jonathan Asbury

Military/War | General

On May 10, 1940, Britain's new prime minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command center. "This," growled Winston Churchill, "is the room from which I will run the war."

At the war's end, Churchill and his colleagues left the chamber and locked the door behind them--and the War Rooms remained there, untouched and little known, until the early 1980s. Today, those historic chambers are on display as the Churchill War Rooms exhibit. With Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms, you can go behind the glass partitions that separate the War Rooms from the visiting public, closer than ever before to where Churchill not only ran the war--but won it. This magnificent volume offers up-close photography of details in every room and provides access to sights unavailable on a simple tour of Churchill War Rooms. These are views that few people in the world have ever seen. Go behind closed doors to sit at Churchill's desk, open up long-abandoned drawers and sift through seventy-year-old papers. See the anxious scratches on the arms of Sir Winston's chair, pick up the phone that he used to speak to the president of the United States, and examine the map that loomed over his bed as he took his famous afternoon naps.

Including more than three hundred detailed images and firsthand memories of Churchill as a leader, boss, father, husband, and a man, Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms tells the fascinating story of the work carried out in these underground offices.

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Jonathan Asbury is the author of the official Churchill War Rooms guidebook, as well as guidebooks for HMS Belfast, IWM London, IWM North and IWM Duxford. He is a graduate of Churchill College, Cambridge - founded in honour of the wartime Prime Minister - and has enjoyed a life-long fascination with the way that the Second World War was won.

IntroductionThe threat and shock of war - March 1938 to May 1940The darkest days - May 1940 to May 1941The tide turns - May 1941 to June 1944The final push - June 1944 to August 1945Stories of the War Rooms Preserving Churchill's War RoomsIndexAcknowledgements

General Fields

  • : 9781904897491
  • : Unicorn Publishing Group
  • : Unicorn Publishing Group
  • : January 2017
  • : 310mm X 260mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Asbury
  • : Hardback
  • : 941.082092
  • : 192
  • : 300 full colour and black & white