Amazon.com: Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England: Lynne Olson: Books

Anybody read the book? Is it good in your opinion?

Troublesome Young Men describes and celebrates the efforts of Chamberlain's opponents within his own Conservative Party. These Tory rebels finally succeeded in bringing the prime minister down after a famous debate in the House of Commons in early May 1940 in which Leo Amery ended his powerful speech by quoting the terrible words that Oliver Cromwell had used to dismiss the Long Parliament 300 years before: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Chamberlain grudgingly resigned, and Winston S. Churchill succeeded him, convinced that destiny had nurtured him and prepared him for what would soon be his finest hour. Yet while this may all seem inevitable in retrospect, there was nothing predestined about it at the time.

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Good discovery Kai, my favourite period, pre war and 1940. Will be buying it today.

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William L. McGonagle, MOH, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY 1967.

I have read the book as a loan from the Toronto Library system. I was bored with it, and didn't finish it. Very dry and slow paced. Too much made of the "young men " who were all upper class university educated toffs , and with one exception, they were all born into great wealth.

Jim Bunting. Toronto.

Unfortunately that was the picture of the most powerfull guys in Britain at the time. More a Gents club than a boys club though. Young men hardly describes the guys around Chruchil at that time anyway.

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Prepare to repel borders.
William L. McGonagle, MOH, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY 1967.