BOOK Winston Churchill’s Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War 1951–1955
Winston Churchill’s Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War 1951–1955
Largely because of his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, Churchill is often remembered as a determined Cold Warrior. Yet, for all his fervent anti-communism, he saw the creation of the Western Alliance as a step not towards war, but towards negotiations with the USSR. This book shows how, as Prime Minister in the 1950s, Churchill hoped for a summit meeting with Soviet leaders, an end to the Cold War, and an era of peaceful scientific advancement by humankind.
https://academic.oup.com/book/27804
Of course. As Churchill put it (and as a man who had witnessed too much conflict in a lifetime): Jaw, jaw, jaw is better than war, war, war.