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...millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept." In this swelling prose, Winston Churchill last week introduced U.S. readers of LIFE, the New York Times, and publications in 50 other countries to Their Finest Hour* Vol. II of his memoirs. Like The Gathering Storm last year, the second volume will be published by Houghton Mifflin Co. and will be a Book-of-the-Month selection...
...Their Finest Hour, on which Churchill put the finishing touches while on a painting trip in France last summer, he carries his readers on to the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. He also provided a Churchillian lesson for generals, politicians, and business executives on the importance of being the head...
...title comes from Churchill's address to the House of Commons on June 18, 1940: "Let us therefore address ourselves to our duty, so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will say, 'This was their finest hour...
Perhaps the finest point of "Grand Illusion" is the way in which it captures that nebulous quality called "atmosphere." The Frenchmen speak French, the Germans speak German, and the Englishmen speak English; the landscape and the dismal PW camps couldn't be more authentic, and the snatches of old songs ring absolutely true. There are no heroes and no villains-only individuals caught in the hopeless drama of their generation and accepting their roles quite philosophically...
Equally brilliant was Captain Dave Key, who also got five points and played his finest game of the season...