Posted on the right is the Pathfinder review for the first volume in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the contest between the Allied Powers in Europe against the Axis during the Second World War:
"Like most historians, Churchill attaches much blame for our present problems on the Treaty of Versailles. 'The economic clauses of the treaty were malignant and silly...' The U.S. demanded a thousand million pounds in reparations from Germany, then promptly loaned her five times as much so that she could re-pay her first obligation. The map of Europe was cut up like a jigsaw puzzle without respect for tradition and a common way of life among the people. Then, having conceived the next war, the U.S. refused to join the last safeguard against it, the League of Nations."
The Nobel committee that chose to award him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 wrote:
"- for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"
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