Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Ricks tells the parallel stories of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, two men who saw the threat of totalitarianism early. Ricks follows both from their youth through the 1930s and the Second World War. Churchill, the aristocratic politician, led Britain against Nazi Germany, while Orwell, the left-wing writer, exposed the lies of fascism and communism in books such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ricks argues both defended individual libert…

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