Secrets of Churchill's war rooms / Jonathan Asbury.
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TextPublisher: London : IWM, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, portraits, 1 plan ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781904897491 (hbk.) :; 1904897495 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership | Prime ministers -- Dwellings -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 940.53092 LOC classification: D760.8.L7 | A84 2016Summary: BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 220) and index.
BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY. 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.
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