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Churchill and Orwell - The Fight for Freedom (Hardcover)
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Churchill and Orwell - The Fight for Freedom (Hardcover)
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List price R870
Loot Price R598
Discovery Miles 5 980
You Save R272 (31%)
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Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the
figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of
Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for
the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and
cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. In Churchill
& Orwell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks
masterfully argues that these extraordinary men are as important
today as they ever were. Churchill and Orwell stood in political
opposition to each other, but were both committed to the
preservation of freedom. However, in the late 1930s they occupied a
lonely position: democracy was much discredited, and authoritarian
rulers, fascist and communist, were everywhere in the ascent.
Unlike others, they had the wisdom to see that the most salient
issue was human liberty - and that any government that denies its
people basic rights is a totalitarian menace to be resisted.
Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men, and this
book reveals how they rose from a precarious position to triumph
over the enemies of freedom. Churchill may have played the larger
role in Hitler's defeat, but Orwell's reckoning with the threat of
authoritarian rule in 1984 and Animal Farm defined the stakes of
the Cold War and continues to inspire to this day. Their lives are
an eloquent testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the
courage it takes to stay true to it.
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