On May 10, 1940, Britains 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 wars end, Churchill and his colleagues left the chamber and locked the door behind themand 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 Churchills 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 warbut 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 Churchills desk, open up long-abandoned drawers and sift through seventy-year-old papers. See the anxious scratches on the arms of Sir Winstons 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 Churchills War Rooms tells the fascinating story of the work carried out in these underground offices.

Jonathan Asbury

London: Imperial War Museums

Univ of Chicago Pr

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, 2018

FR, 2022

2017

224 pages : 29 cm
This magnificent new volume gives you exclusive access to the Churchill War Rooms, bringing you closer than ever before to where Churchill not only ran the war -- but won it
Includes bibliographical references (page 220) and index
Introduction -- The threat and shock of war : July 1936 to May 1940 -- The darkest days : May 1940 to May 1941 -- The tide turns : June 1941 to December 1943 -- The final push : January 1944 to August 1945 -- Preserving Churchill's War Rooms

2023-06-28