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Old May 3rd, 2004, 08:01 PM
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Indeed, Martin! It's awesome. Even if it's one of the most British-biased books I've read... But as you say, you're listening to the real Churchill speaking, his words and rethoric! Not to mention that his writing is indeed, a Nobel-prize-level writing. That helps a lot.

But even if it's biased. His particular points of view are quite realistic and what he writes is accurate to a some extent —and he says it in the preface, "it will not in the essentials be overturned by the historians of the future".

Also, it was impressive to get to know how deep Winston was involved in the Dreadnought competition and in the development of naval design!

But there's one problem... I've got the first volume only... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] Does any one have an extra-copy? [img]tongue.gif[/img] I refuse to read it in Spanish! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
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