Wounded Lion

By Terry Holland
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Published: June 30, 2011
Words: 22,635 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982976043

Short description

In the first Great War, Winston Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty at 39. Confronted with the horrible stalemate of trench warfare in the Western Front, Winston devised a daring plan to open an Eastern Front by sending his navy to Constantinople through the Straits of the Dardanelles. The plan failed. Wounded Lion is the story of that adventure and its effect on Churchill's career.

Extended description

At the onset of World War !, Winston Churchill, 39, was the First Lord of the Admiralty, the youngest — and by general agreement the brightest — member of the British War Council. And easily the most annoying for his vanity and insensitivity.
The war soon settled into the bloody stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front, with tens of thousands dying daily in battles whose outcome changed nothing. Winston devised a daring plan to open an Eastern Front by forcing his Navy through the Straits of the Dardanelles, seizing Constantinople and delivering thousands of His Majesty's troops to the German rear.
The plan failed through the clear timidity of the Navy's fleet commanders, men who had not fought in combat for many decades and whose only thought was not losing their ship. The navy finally dumped the army on the shore of Gallipoli where the Turks commanded the heights and destroyed them all.
Churchill's fall from grace was precipitous and total. He was drummed out of the Cab.. (Read more) At the onset of World War !, Winston Churchill, 39, was the First Lord of the Admiralty, the youngest — and by general agreement the brightest — member of the British War Council. And easily the most annoying for his vanity and insensitivity.
The war soon settled into the bloody stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front, with tens of thousands dying daily in battles whose outcome changed nothing. Winston devised a daring plan to open an Eastern Front by forcing his Navy through the Straits of the Dardanelles, seizing Constantinople and delivering thousands of His Majesty's troops to the German rear.
The plan failed through the clear timidity of the Navy's fleet commanders, men who had not fought in combat for many decades and whose only thought was not losing their ship. The navy finally dumped the army on the shore of Gallipoli where the Turks commanded the heights and destroyed them all.
Churchill's fall from grace was precipitous and total. He was drummed out of the Cabinet and assigned an obscure post in Lancashire.
But it's hard to keep a good man down and harder still when it's a great man. After nursing his damaged ego back into form, Winston seized command of a Battalion and fought with creativity and courage in France, including inventing the tank.
Wounded Lion is the personal and human story of the mid-life crisis of the most important figure of the Twentieth Century. It is based on reality but conceived in the author's imagination and peopled with men — and women — who changed the course of history.
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world war one, churchill, gallipoli, the dardanelles, rise and fall from power, unconquerable spirit

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